into a sheet of ice, stranding some island communities. on the lower eastern shore, they we ice bound a ferpry reach it for a week so a maryld ice breaker was call in. the virginia national gud also used a blackhawk helicopter to deliver fre food and medicine. there s no drugstore on the island. just being outside in five minute this shirt is comp frozen solid. that s how cold it is out here. yeah how s that for cold? we sent storm team 4 meteort amelia segal outside one morni this week. she did a little demonstrati showg us how long it takes for things to freeze outside. well it was very cold. in fact cold enough to make ice cream. of course the extreme cold and the yo-yo temperatures mean bad things for area roads. d.c. s department of transp says that we re head straight into the worst streh of pothole season. so tisha thompson and the news4 i-team wanted to find out just how your local pothole compares to others in the region by getting t hands on a list that rep ther