Looky my tulips made it thru below freezing temps

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Last week our area had a warning out for a severe or hard frost. Not knowing how cold a hard frost gets I checked it out because it was 28 degrees F, -2.223 C a week or so before but the were no warnings then. It said any temp below 28F /--2.222 C that stays at that temp for three or more hours. In 2012 Michigan had abnormally high temps into the eighties (26.667 C) in March causing flowers and flowering fruit trees to bud. Then late spring we had a hard frost which caused all the trees and flowers to revert back into winter mode. None of the fruit trees had any fruit that year although the regular trees such as maple and oak etc for their leaves back some time after that as did the actual flowers. When I heard there was another potential for a hard frost after the nice spring we've had I talked with some other ladies and we prayed that Michigan would not get the hard frost. And we didn't. It did get down to 26 degrees F/-3.333 C in the night but only for two hours not three. Plus no frost came down to the ground or onto the windshields either. So my tulips made it thru. One looked sad but got back up a few days later. My hyacinths and daffodils are dying but they weren't great already before that night.