Coping with the deep freeze in Michigan

Xiao England of Rochester skateboards with her dog Freyja around Rochester Municipal Park. "She was getting bored being inside so I thought, why not" comments England about skating boarding with her dog Frejya on a sunny yet still freezing Friday afternoon. After several days of sub-zero temperatures, people are getting outside to enjoy the above zero temperatures on a sunny Friday after noon in Rochester, Michigan on February 1, 2019.

Xiao England of Rochester and her dog Freyja took a walk with Freyja on a leash and England on a skateboard around Rochester Municipal Park as the weather warmed up above freezing and the sun came out.

Temperatures rose above zero Friday, but things were still extremely frigid as commuters cross Fort Street in downtown Detroit around 5 p.m. with temperatures hovering around 10-degrees on Friday.

Kyle Stewart plows through drifted snow while trying to clear a sidewalk outside a Lansing-area shopping mall on Thursday, January 31, 2019. The walks had been cleared recently, but blowing and drifting quickly closed them again.

Kyle Stewart plows through drifted snow while trying to clear a sidewalk outside a Lansing-area shopping mall Thursday.

When asked if she's gonna continue shoveling, Sandra Campos says with authority, "give me a minute, I'm taking a break, I'm 80-years-old," before continuing to shovel out the mailboxes at her residence on Lake Orion near the Indianwood Golf and Country Club's 'Old Course,' (established in 1925.)

Ice crystals form on window glass at a home in Grosse Pointe Woods as the air temperature dropped to 11-degrees-below-zero Thursday morning, January 31, 2019. The wind-chill factor dipped to a dangerously cold 31-degrees-below-zero.

A weak sun rises above frozen fields and farms in mid Michigan near Maple Rapids on Thursday, Jan 31, 2019. Single-digit high temps are forecast for the day.

Lenox Township's Kustom Truck and Trailer owner Michael Kotulski, of Algonac, buys an XL infrared electric heater from New Haven's Tractor Supply Co. cashier Kelly Haggard, of Marine City, Thursday morning, January 31, 2019. One of Kotulski's hot-water boiler pumps broke at home, so he needs to heat the area while the unit gets repaired.

The Capitol building, seen through a frozen window in the Lansing bureau of The Detroit News, sits idle after extreme cold weather prompted a governmental shutdown until Friday.

Anton Maurice Spann Sr., 56, and wife Shavonne, 33, share a good-morning kiss Wednesday. They were the only two to stay at the St. Augustine/St. Monica Catholic Church warming center overnight.

Michigan State Police officer Jeremy Nunez pedals through the drifts in front of the state Capitol on Wednesday morning. Although state government is shut because of the weather, the MSP is still responsible for patrols.

A lone car makes its way down Brush Street at Mack in Detroit Wednesday morning in subzero temperatures.

Hillary Vigilant and Goose, an Alaskan Malamute, go for a walk in frigid Detroit Wednesday morning.

Employees of Major Cement of Detroit work on a water main break Wednesday on Canfield between Cass and Second in Detroit. "It's just too cold out here," said Jeff Jackson, superintendent of Major Cement. "Get home, get warm and start all over again tomorrow."

Richard James, a Detroit Water and Sewerage worker, uses a poking rod to find a water main break in Detroit, Wednesday.

Miquel Cook, 21, a Detroit Water and Sewerage Department employee, straps down heavy equipment after working on a water main break on Renfrew in Detroit, Wednesday.

Chuck Bryant, a Detroit Water and Sewerage worker, uses an aqua phone to locate a water main break in Detroit, Wednesday.

Theron Dillard delivers for Seven Greens restaurant on his bike in downtown Detroit, which was experiencing record cold weather on Wednesday.

Steam rises over Brush Street in downtown Detroit Wednesday.

Timothy Smith braves the cold for a cup of coffee on Wednesday in Detroit.

Shavonne Spann stays in bed after waking up Wednesday morning at the St. Augustine/St. Monica Catholic Church warming center in Detroit. She and her husband live nearby, but decided to stay at the warming center to save on electrical costs at home.

Wind gusts send steam through Detroit's New Center area Wednesday.

Gloria Santillan of Detroit takes photos of her children in front of the mostly frozen Detroit River. They are, from left, Mattius Santillan, 10, Arabelle Santillan, 13, and Joaquin Santillan, 8. Santillan, who homeschools her children, says they often come down to the river.

What possibly looks like a mountain range is a pressure ridge on the icy Detroit River where two floes collided.

Ice floes on the partially frozen Detroit River.

A pressure ridge forms on the icy Detroit River where floes collided.

Maintenance vehicles drive on an empty walkway on the Wayne State University campus, where classes were canceled because of the severe cold.

All is quiet near the McGregor Memorial Conference Center, right, on the campus of Wayne State University, where classes were canceled because of the severe cold.

The Detroit Historical Museum is closed because of severe weather, according to a notice on the door.

City crews clear sidewalks Wednesday in empty downtown St. Joseph. A winter storm brought several inches of snow and subzero temperatures to the area.