Some took to shelters and warming centers Friday, while others bundled up and limited outdoor activity. Forecasters say temperatures in Portland would reach 16 below overnight, but rebound into the 30s by Sunday.
Neal Dow was mayor of Portland, an abolitionist and a supporter of women's suffrage, a brigadier general in the Union Army who was wounded and captured in the Civil War, but his most famous role was as "the Father of Prohibition."