My entrance has a gap for oxygen to come through. An emergency link with Sirius Patrol if anything goes wrong, if this starts to cave in - which it shouldn't as it's well built. Hi, guys, Donal here. No worries and see you in the morning, over. OK. I'll see if they respond. If not, well... I hope they'll be listening if something did go wrong. It's the middle of the night, minus outside. One big problem in the Arctic is that any exposed skin will get frostbite after a few minutes. Brings me to the problem of going to the toilet. Don't think so. (House on Digitally Imported - Digitally Imported) The temperature inside the hole stayed degrees warmer than outside. Deep House Radio The snow works as a good insulator. I spent the night in what, for the Arctic, was a cosy minus five degrees. How have you been? Morning, guys, good. Want a cup of coffee? That's a great idea. The Sirius Patrol are trained to cope with severe Arctic weather, but when it hits the places we least expect it, the consequences can be horrific. This isn't Greenland. This is New York State in early spring, . Four feet in front, our tracks were gone, couldn't find where we'd come from, it'd gone. The wind blew us down, our eyelids froze. We held our hands up to stop the stinging. The th of March, , saw the entire east coast of the U.S. Gripped by one of the wildest storms in history. Satellite shows a huge storm system coming up the coast. Moisture colliding with the cold air means very heavy snows for our region. - inches for the capital by mid-day tomorrow. In upstate New York, Geoff Smock and Bill Simmons were relaxing after work. Several hundred miles away, the storm was growing and heading their way. It had started to snow, but that wasn't unusual for the time of year. As they set off home, they had no idea they were about to be overtaken by a blizzard that would change their lives forever. Full blizzard conditions in the capital and west New England. House on Digitally Imported - Digitally Imported Thunder snows, high winds and dangerous cold. The snowfall was extraordinary. Bill and Geoff ground to a halt just half a mile from home. They decided to walk, and that's when their nightmare began. You couldn't go forward or backwards, right or left, no place to go. It was like ploughing through five foot of snow, then you get exhausted and you look up and the snow banks are up here and you're in a hole. We originally thought we'd stay at the tree until the wind calmed down, then head back home, but the weather got worse. By now, winds were gusting at mph, temperatures had plummeted way below zero and snow was drifting as high as ten metres. Over the state, the blizzard was tightening its grip. (TV) Death toll from the blizzard is mounting, seven people dead. Make no mistake, this is an emergency. Back at the tree, the storm was getting worse. Geoff and Bill had been stuck for eight hours. I couldn't walk. Ten feet from the tree, my feet gave out. I couldn't even stand up. I tried but couldn't. I crawled back here. I said, "Bill, no one's looking for us." No one knows we're here. Right. As the night wore on, the temperature dropped lower, hitting Arctic extremes of minus degrees.