Cats and snow and cold

It isn't below 0F in NYC right now but it is pretty close. The outside
cats always disappear when we get a big snow and show up again in
three or four days. After the snow from last Friday they didn't show
up again until Monday, when three of them came to eat. The fourth one
had been spotted a day earlier.

But this cold is something else. Buddy, the grey feral, spent the
night in the heated box that I had built for Baby. I think Baby and
her mom, Jet, spent the night under the porch of a neighbor a few
doors away. They go there when there is heavy snow and just stay under
the porch. It's shelltered from the wind but there is no insulation of
any kind.

There are also several cats that live in the backyards, but one of my
neighbors has some crude shelters for them and I guess they stay
there. I'll have to ask her.

It's interesting how they manage to survive these temperatures. I
mean, they do have fur coats but still, it's cold.