People have been talking about the extreme cold and how to deal with it a lot more this year than usually. Sunday night, a 42-year-old escaped inmate actually showed people how cold it is in Kentucky with action - he did it by turning himself in.

Robert Vick, a prisoner who escaped from a minimum security facility in Lexington, coudn't stand the sub-zero temperatures and walked into a motel to ask the clerk to call the police.

LEX18-TV was there when Vick turned himself into the Lexington police. According to the station, the motel guests said Vick's toes and fingers were frost and he was shivering. Apparently Vick's desire for freedome was not as strong as his needs to stay warm.

"After Vick walked away from his six-year sentence for burglary and five-year sentence for criminal possession of a forged instrument, Mother Nature had a harsher punishment," the station said. 

The station reported that one of the guest, Victoria Fugate, even gave Vick a ham and cheese sandwhich and some hot chocolate when Vick was asking for help. But at that momert Fugate didn't know Vick was on the run.

The station said Vick was released from the University of Kentucky Hospital and was back in the Blackburn Correctional Complex Monday night. 

According to the Associated Press, the record-breaking polar air has made the Midwest shiver spread to the East and South on Tuesday.

The AP reported that the big chill started in the Midwest over the weekend, and by Tuesday, it covered about half of the country.

To prevent the kids from the dangerous cold, many schools and day care centers across the eastern half of the U.S. were closed Tuesday, according to AP. Officials opened shelters for the homeless and anyone else who needed a warm place.