LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Ice in the bluegrass, snow in the Piedmont, bone-chilling temperatures in the northeastern USA. The same parts of the country that savored their spring-like weather just a week or two ago are shoveling and shivering today, and we're not even one full month into winter.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You just dress a couple layers and move, keep on moving.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep moving.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, that's all you can do.</s>WATERS: Some New York City apartment buildings have been without heat since Friday. Temperatures inside are in the 50s.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I call the city, they say they're going to send somebody, inspectors or something like that, but nobody comes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's horrible. It's very cold.</s>WATERS: It's the worst weather you can possibly imagine for fighting a fire. This four-alarm blaze started Monday afternoon at a candle factory in Newark, New Jersey. One-hundred-twenty firefighters battled not just the fire but steadily dropping temperatures and 20- mile-an-hour winds. Five hours later, the flames were under control but crews stayed on the scene all night long.</s>WATERS: Ooh, that's tough duty.</s>ALLEN: If that wasn't an icicle on his hat!</s>WATERS: And we heard some complaints in the hallway here in the south today that we've got these draws full of sweaters and we can't use them.</s>ALLEN: Our lives are very hard down here.
Ice, Snow, Bone-Chilling Temperatures Hit Eastern USA