A deadly blast of artic air that has smashed decades-old records is continuing to wreak havoc as it moves across to the US east coast.<br /><br />Road, rail and air travel has been severely disrupted along with schools and businesses, forcing thousands to remain home.<br /><br />And some of those who have braved the tumbling temperatures in Chicago wish they had not.<br /><br />One Chicago resident said: “I don’t want to be outside at all, not at all. The moment you walk outside your skin hurts.”<br /><br />“It is brutal out here. It is unbelievably cold out here. It’s ridiculous,” lamented another Chicago commuter. <br /><br />Major US cities from the MidWest to the East Coast are in double figures well below freezing. At least four deaths are thought to be weather related.<br /><br />There have been hundreds of flight cancellations – and further delays in order to allow flight crews to rest after scrambling to recover from snow induced problems.<br /><br />Forecasters say the extreme cold snap is expected to head south but it is unclear exactly how long it will last.
