Drivers often leave their truck engines idling in order to heat or cool their vehicles while they sleep, but some new engines automatically shut down when the weather isn't hot or cold enough to warrant running the heating or air conditioning.
While wetter activities shut down when the weather turns cool, Zoar's zip-lining tours continue through the end of November at special rates that attract visitors during the relatively quiet fall season.
Hundreds of flights were canceled throughout the day, many because airports elsewhere in the country, like O'Hare in Chicago, were shut down because of the weather.
With hundreds of schools across Scotland shut down due to the weather, teachers are turning to technology to set work for their students and make sure they complete it on time.
The May 1 "general strike", the result of months of planning and coordination between groups across the US, is Occupy's big chance to regain the momentum lost when a combination of police crackdowns and the harsh winter weather shut down the protest at the end of last year.
I mean most services are online - my financial advisor didn't shut down due to the weather - he just worked from home instead.
Though the festival was eventually shut down due to severe weather, we all breathed a sigh of relief at their safe return.
JFK was shut down due to the risky weather conditions at around 830 AM EST.
"You surround yourself by a set of rules so that you don't get victimized, and in weather, you shut down," he said.
When the weather is so bad that it nearly shuts down the Weather Channel, that could become cause for alarm.
