It is getting warmer. Even overnight the air in the middle of the country is warmer. It's still cold, but, it is moving up in temperature. It is above freezing. 

That is impressive. It looks like New Jersey made good use of the Sandy money. There won't be more flooding ocean front. That is all about tides. The inland areas might flood.

I don't recall ever seeing this kind of preparedness. 

Emergency beach (click here) replenishment is underway in Long Beach Twp. 1/25/16 Long Beach Twp, NJ (John Munson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

Ortley Beach — Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno on Monday defended Gov. Chris Christie's claim that Shore communities sustained "no residual flood damage" and "no residual flooding" the day after Saturday's blizzard.
Just hours after Christie delivered those comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Guadagno said the governor was referring to towns experiencing no new flooding from high tides after Sunday.
"I think what the governor said was 'no residual flooding. The flood cycles are over,'" she said while touring the severely eroded beach in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River. "The force of the flooding is over and we're gonna go down and take a look at what the damage was over those two or three cycles.",,,

The Boston Herald is no slouchy endorsement for Republicans. It is considered primarily a conservative paper. Congratulations, Governor Christi. I think his resume matters.

January 25, 2016
By Boston Herald Staff

The world changed on Nov. 13 (click here) when terrorists slaughtered 130 people in Paris. Then at a holiday party in San Bernardino terror came to our homeland — again.
And while all of this was shaking our world, the Republican presidential campaign was becoming an increasingly 
bizarre sideshow.
The more the need for real leadership — at home and on the world stage — became obvious, the more our politics descended into farce....
... And while we respect and admire all three of those who have served as governors who are now running for the
 GOP presidential nomination, our endorsement goes to 
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
A former U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, Christie knows something about being on the front lines of the ongoing war on terror. And he’s certainly not reluctant to talk about where this nation has gone astray on the international front.
But as governor of a largely Democratic state he also knows well that you don’t get anything done on the homefront without cooperation.
He has been gutsy on the campaign trail — and yes it takes guts to talk about entitlement reform, which he has....