I want to take back that last post about it not being so bad up here in North Dakota. From weather.com

Dangerous cold for some locations

An arctic cold front will send an icy blast of frigid air into the northern Plains and Upper Midwest on Saturday. The front will be accompanied by light snow but strong winds can create ground blizzards. The front will sweep on through the Great Lakes area Saturday night.

Temperatures will be as much as 30 degrees below average behind the front. Strong northwest winds, locally gusting over 50 mph, will move the exiting snow around, producing blizzard conditions from North Dakota to Upper Michigan and Wisconsin Saturday and around the Great Lakes Sunday.

Highway travel may become hazardous due to limited visibilities and drifting snow. Airline delays could occur across the region from Minneapolis to Chicago.

Saturday highs will be around zero across North Dakota and northwest Minnesota while they plunge behind the front from the teens and 20s toward zero across the remainder of Minnesota, Wisconsin, western Upper Michigan, northern Illinois, northern Iowa, South Dakota and northern Nebraska.

Sunday morning lows will range from just above zero in Des Moines and Chicago to 20 below zero in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Dangerously low wind chills by early Sunday will range from minus 25 in central Iowa and northern Illinois to near minus 50 in northern Minnesota.

On Sunday, bitterly cold highs will dominate the Midwest, ranging from the 20s and low 30s in the Ohio Valley to 10 below zero just south of the Canadian border over northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Wind chills will range from as low as minus 10 across northern Ohio to minus 45 in northern Wisconsin.

I’m at the truck stop in Beach, ND right on the border of North Dakota and Montana. I’ve got plenty of fuel and don’t have to be in Saint Paul until Monday morning. This is supposed to blow through real fast and be finished by Sunday.