A vehicle sits on a bridge abutment after sliding off an ice and snow covered section of a road in Norman, Okla. on Wednesday. The SUV later toppled onto its roof to the creek below. No injuries were reported.(Jerry Laizure / The Norman Transcript via AP) 

Forecasters had predicted lows of minus 11 degrees in northwest Arkansas and minus 10 degrees in parts of Oklahoma. But temperatures instead dipped to minus 18 in Fayetteville and to minus 28 in Bartlesville, Okla.

Nowata, Okla., recorded 31 degrees below zero — setting a new record low for the state. The previous lowest temperature in Oklahoma history was 27 below in 1930 and 1905, said Gary McManus, associate state climatologist with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.

"We just had a very cold arctic air mass and a heavy snow pack and that allowed the temperatures to plummet when the wind died down," said McManus. "We got much colder temperatures than anyone thought would occur."

My nephew works on a ranch in northeastern Oklahoma.  I just cannot imagine how he is coping with 20 inches of snow on the ground and cattle to feed and ice to break so that the cattle have water.

Morning snow on top of already icy roads created numerous traffic problems around Springfield, Mo., Feb. 9. No one was hurt in this roll over. (Dean Curtis / Springfield News-Leader via AP)Share

This was the scene in Tulsa as the second blizzard in less than a week hit the city.

Postman Rick Langkford delivers mail in Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 9. (Tom Gilbert / The Tulsa World via AP) Share
Nice to see the postman still making rounds in Oklahoma.  We got no mail for four days last week.  I guess in Dallas someone forgot to remind the post offices that the "mail must go through", no matter what the weather.