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Do you have any relatives in Florida, Los Angeles or the Caribbean? Now is an excellent time to catch up.

New Year's 2018 was marked by bone-chillingly low, sad temperatures in much of the continental United States. New York City had its coldest New Years since 1962. Chicago's New Year's, which was measured at about zero degrees right before midnight, was its most frigid since 1969. Temperatures in some parts of the United States hit 50 degrees below Farenheit.

Thankfully, these photos of places and people looking just as miserable as us give us warmth.

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Take a look at these frozen fountains and rejoice, because you are likely inside reading this.

Tourists who are braver than you went to visit the frozen Niagara Falls on New Year's Eve.Credit: Vianney Le Caer/REX/Shutterstock

Lake Chiberia. Wednesday in Chicago at Minus-1 during Sunrise #ilwx #weather #chicago #news #winter pic.twitter.com/82CIHNkMTZ

— Barry Butler (@barrybutler9) December 27, 2017

Love this photo of the cargo ship St. Clair arriving, like a ghost ship, at Duluth, where it is extremely cold. https://t.co/aMF1WNPOwq pic.twitter.com/H3LjB4L0bR

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) January 1, 2018

Tourists outside a snow-covered Cloud Gate at Millennium Park in Chicago, where temperatures dipped into the sub-zeroes.Credit: Nam Y. Huh/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Calgary too cold for penguins, zoo brings birds indoors - https://t.co/mMVrWX7rDn pic.twitter.com/u1jDVAeLs2

— CTV Regina (@ctvregina) January 1, 2018

New York. New Year's morning. Frozen puke. pic.twitter.com/l20x4yYu2a

— Jeff McDonald (@JMcDonald_SAEN) January 1, 2018

These men from Michigan took advantage of the deep freeze to build a moving ice carousel which, damn.

Deep Freeze, Erie, Pennsylvania.Credit: Tony Dejak/AP/REX/ShutterstockA frozen lake in Central Park. Tourists, beware.Credit: William Volcov/REX/ShutterstockTourists gaze at a frozen fountain Bryant Park in Manhattan. New Yorkers stay at home.Credit: Frank Franklin II/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Another frozen shark has been found along the Cape Cod shoreline. “It was a sharksicle,” said one conservationist. https://t.co/0qBoKSI4Ob pic.twitter.com/hGFrGQpXQE

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) December 31, 2017

Say what you will, but this deep freeze is a real victory for people who love the great indoors. Congrats.

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