This week, Bethesdanow.com published a photo sent in by a reader that perfectly illustrates the frigid temperatures gripping much of the U.S. The photo shows drips above a broken escalators in the Bethesda, Maryland, metro, replaced, for the moment, with icicles. People who commented on the story blasted the station’s consistently poor conditions, but the website noted that at least the extreme cold stopped the leaks, for now.

Extreme low temperatures in Bethesda, Maryland, stopped the dripping above a broken escalator in the metro station. (Photo courtesy of Bethesdanow.com)