When my husband came home a few hours later he found me not quite asleep in his winter-weight winceyette pyjamas, clutching a hot-water bottle and shivering under two duvets and a blanket.
That's when two-thirds of the country's population woke up to temperatures below freezing and about a quarter of Americans shivered in temperatures below zero.
So when you're off saying ''walk the plank, " " shiver me timbers" or " arrgh'', just know that unfortunately thanks to Hollywood and pop culture, pirates never really spoke like that.