Daily Climate: Cold weather slamming into the Midwest and Eastern United States has plenty of people feeling isolated and cut-off. Turns out the corresponding record warmth baking Alaska as the polar vortex shifts has made that literally true for the coastal town of Valdez. Over the weekend a series of unprecedented avalanches buried the Richardson Highway, the sole route connecting the town of 4,000 to the state's road system, beneath 50 to 100 feet of snow and debris. The slides happened in an area well-known...