Luckily we have a few (possibly) silver linings:
1) its not guaranteed yet that a SSW will occur, only half of the GEFS have a warming occurring in the next 2 weeks
2) Not all SSW are the same and depending on how the vortex gets split/the alignment of the blocking we may not get brutal cold
3) By the second half of May, when prime storm chase season is occurring, the weather patterns are not really connected to any SSW occurring in Feb/Mar