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miles to meet with his morning coffee group.
• "I farmed for most of my life. It doesn't bother me," he said of the weather. "I remember one stretch about 40 years ago when it never got above 19 below for two weeks."
• Mike Chambers, a truck driver from Centerville, S.D., also was at the restaurant, waiting to hear whether the Fargo business to which he was scheduled to make a delivery Monday would open. If he had to wait until Tuesday to unload, he said he planned to "sit here at the truck stop and watch TV, watch the news, and visit with everybody."
• In Sioux Falls, S.D., courier Mike Jesse, 56, needed gas Monday morning before driving his route for Sanford Health Home Medical Equipment.
• "The pumps wouldn't work over here. They're too cold," he said of a row of north-facing pumps. "I hit cancel and moved around to this pump over here (to the south). This one was really slow coming up, but it finally started pumping gas for me.
• "It's a good job when it's cold. It's a great job any other time."
• The National Weather Service reported overnight lows in North Dakota and South Dakota in the minus teens and 20s, and wind chills in the minus 30s, 40s, and even 50s.
• "This is a particularly dangerous situation," said Philip Schumacher, a weather service meteorologist in Sioux Falls. "Exposed skin can freeze in a matter of minutes in these temperatures. Should you go outside without gloves or a hat your fingers or ears could become frostbitten in 5-10 minutes, and conditions would become life-threatening in an hour or less."
• Prolonged exposure to extreme cold can lead to hypothermia, which can be fatal.
• The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and North Dakota State University in Fargo called off classes. North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple canceled a state Capitol event to off a yearlong celebration of North Dakota's 125th anniversary of statehood. In Minot, residential garbage collection was canceled "for the safety of our crews," city spokesman Bob Lindee said. In Sioux Falls, the cold even prompted the shutdown of public ice rinks. Also in southeast South Dakota, the Turner County Courthouse in Parker, S.D., had to close because of a natural gas problem.
• Health concerns extended to animals. In Grand Forks, some residents were offering to provide housing for pets whose owners do not have adequate shelter for their animals, Circle of Friends Humane Society Executive Director Arlette Moen said.
• "It is imperative that pets be kept indoors during all inclement weather but particularly during this period of extreme cold," she said. "All breeds and species, re

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