Winter can be long and harsh here on LBI, and you might say these last few weeks have been typical. I called three year-round restaurants on Monday at lunch before finding one that was open. Our great Japanese restaurant in Ship Bottom just battened down the economic hatches for probably a few weeks. The bay melted, froze and melted again. Typical.

Over the span of the last10 days, we’ve had horrific freezing temps, a super warm-up, intermittent snowfall, a fundraiser of “arctic” proportions and…