Keys to Surviving a Post Blizzard NYC

• Wear high waterproof boots. Once the snow starts to melt a little bit, rivers of black icky water fill the potholes of NYC and you don’t want to be the one with the gross wet sock all day.
  
• Heads up! As the sun heats up, so do the ice on the buildings. I almost got hit with a small glacier falling from the Bank of New York Building. Scary.
  
• Before leaving your apartment, have a plan. Make sure you know how to get to the subway. It helps to dig a series of tunnels from the sidewalk to the street.
  
• Avoid the yellow snow. The snow seems so beautiful on the first day, but then it becomes city snow. It will turn strange shades of yellow, sometimes brown and then eventually a sickly black. (Another reason you want high waterproof boots).
  
• Is it really a blizzard if I still get my New York Times? For some reason, even the day after a record breaking snowfall, I continue to receive my New York Times. It’s more reliable than the US Postal Service.