We can get through this Jersey City, it's only 36 hours of hell

Hopefully this is the last time we feel the need to talk about the weather. Johnny is a veteran of these really cold snaps spending a couple winters in Marquette Michigan at Northern Michigan University. Marquette, it's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. In Marquette in a good winter you can walk up snow drifts and unscrew streetlights. Johnny himself remembers a massive storm of epic proportions that closed travel across the Mackinac Bridge for the first time ever in January of 1982. The cold always comes after the snow. 17 inches of snow later the radio was telling people do not for any reason go outside as if you went outside your eyes could freeze. All hope is lost. Hunker down and pray to live. The wind chill was -93º friends, WMQT said so.

Of course we went outside, we were stupid NMU Wildcat freshmen in need of beer and somehow O'Dells Party Store was open. Crystals really do form in the corner of your eyes from the tears of pain from having any exposed skin. Snow at that temperature is so strange, like a styrofoam paste. The lesson here is we were stronger than the storm and drank MeisterBrau and Buckhorn like Vikings for two days for our efforts.

We'll get through this fine Jersey City just make common sense decisions. Layer your clothes, keep moving (If you're waiting for a bus or having to stand in line someplace keep moving even in circles. Standing still BAD). Jersey City pops a watermain a day so get some drinking and flushing water ready. Get all pets inside and out of the wind. Past that you're good.

In the words of Stacy Keach on the show 'Titus', "Don't be a wussy."