If anything wrong happens, he will freak out. I'm kind of like that. I'm kind of wound tight.

People are somewhat concerned they can spread, but I kind of doubt they can. We don't have that much of their kind of habitat. There's not a whole lot of prairie around here. It's more corn and soybeans.

This is an unprecedented event that allows for raising some serious money for such an important resource as the library and also brings great regional attention to our area.

The Midwest and the plains, the natural gas areas, are even colder. Temperatures will fall to between 10 and 20 degrees below normal.

A storm system in moving up the East Coast and will be followed by a cold front. Low temperatures in the Northeast should last into early next week.

Temperatures in the Northeast will be below normal for the next seven to eight days. The coldest days will be Thursday and Friday.