LOW TEMPERATURES UPSET INAUGURAL PLANS
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By Sandra Evans and Paul W. Valentine
          Washington Post Staff Writers   (1-22-85)
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      A record-cold Inauguration Day yesterday, stranded bus riders, closed schools, burst water pipes, choked up automatic money machines, filled homeless shelters, and drove President Reagan's swearing in ceremony inside.
     The temperature at National Airport sank to 4 degrees below zero--or minus 25 degrees with the wind chill factor- at 6:a.m. yesterday, well below the previous low for the day of 2 degrees above, set in 1893. At least 49 deaths in 14 states blamed on the weather, as well as one death here; at least seven cases of frostbite were treated at one area hospital.

 Historic lows were recorded in cities all along the East Coast and throughout the South,as bittery cold air swept down from Canada, and the Florida citrus crop was threatened by temperatures that dipped to 6 degrees in some areas.
 The West`Coast experienced a relatively balmy day, and Anchorage basked in the 20s and 30,s. Akron, Ohio, and Knoxville, Tenn., .. were officially the coldest places in the nation, with lows of  24 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service. Buffalo reported 27 inches of snow and "zero visibility,and only emergency vehicles were allowed on the streets.

 In Washington, more than 1,200 homeless persons took refuge in private and city-run shelters Sunday night, filling some to capacity.
  
In Response to frigid weather, some schools will be opening late today.                           

STREETS EMPTY FOR INAUGURATION
     
               Diehards See Motorcade
It was an inauguration Day like no other, Pennsylvania Avenue was nearly deserted. Only a few diehards brave~d the icy winds to see a presidential motorcade serve as a wan
substitute for The marchers and bands, the horses and riders of the canceled inaugural parade.
     On the grounds near the C`apltol there were 26.000 empty seats spread out eerily before a barren platform where President Reagan was to have taken the oath of office. Spectators huddled instead  inside warm hotel rooms and crowded restaurants to do
what they would have done back home--watch it on television.
     Ten miles away, the Capital Center, instead of going through its routine metamorphosis from hockey rink to basketball arena,
was hastily converted to presidential parade
grounds.  Thousands who had planned to march in the parade-that-never-was settled for watching each other in a scaled-back inaugural rally attended by Reagan. Five of the 33 bands that would have marched down Pennsylvania Avenue got to show their stuff on national TV.                                And some catering trucks destined earlier for lavish parade-watching parties were rerouted to soup kitchens and homeless shelters, after many of the affairs were.
called off.
      The villain in the piece was the weather.
Bone-chilling winds and temperatures that plunged to four below zero, paying no heed to the fact that this was the nation's 50th
inauguration.