The river and parts of the bay have frozen

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We've had very cold temperatures for over a week now so the Toms River has frozen over mostly and parts of the Barnegat Bay have frozen as well. There was drama recently about a fox who was stranded on a floating piece of ice in the middle of the bay. She eventually was rescued after days of drama. Anyway authorities are telling everyone to stay off of the ice. Um, doesn't that just go without saying? Doesn't everyone know that? Apparently not. It was drilled into me as a child that you NEVER walk on ice because if you fall through you'll never get back up. Still I have to laugh. Back in the winter of 1976-1977 it was super cold. The bay froze so much and so hard that people were literally driving their cars from one side to the other. . . including my parents. My mother was pregnant with me at the time. My dad drove their Datsun sports car all around the bay. How I wish there were videos of that. There were actual traffic accidents on the ice on the bay. The bay isn't that frozen these days but parts of it are solid. That isn't a normal thing for this area. I can't wait for the weather to warm up.