Doug T.
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Post by Doug T. on Feb 12, 2011 10:07:53 GMT -5
Hi All ! It was very, very cold this morning (-15F), but the river was warmer, so it was also a bit foggy. I had an appointment and saw that the trees had that pretty, glassy look to them. We pulled over, actually a no-no on an interstate, and shot this. The Chenango River at this point is a 5 minute walk from our house. That's interstate route 88 heading west in the distance. Doug
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Post by photax on Feb 12, 2011 11:39:34 GMT -5
Hi Doug ! Did you went for a swimm ? A cool picture, in the full sense of the word ! Your picture reminds me somehow of the good old river Danube here. MIK
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Post by daveh on Feb 12, 2011 12:55:47 GMT -5
Swim? No, Doug walks on water.
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Post by Doug T. on Feb 12, 2011 16:33:08 GMT -5
Dave, I only walk on frozen water At one time, Joseph Smith lived and worked on a farm near here. He announced that in two days he would walk on water, and where he would do it. Some of the local wags went to the spot the night before the miraculous event was to take place, and removed some of the planks which had been laid a couple of inches below the surface. From what I understand, he sank like a rock ;D I wish I could have seen that ! Here's another shot of the river. Doug
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2011 17:33:42 GMT -5
Frozen lake about a mile from my house--last winter. Today it's 57 degrees F here!
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Post by daveh on Feb 12, 2011 17:49:23 GMT -5
Doug, I like that story. Plankgone rather than plankton.
Wayne, what caused the rift in the ice?
Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2011 20:02:14 GMT -5
Dave: Apparently it was just the pressure of the water freezing and expanding. Eventually the pressure built up and something had to give. I think it's called a "pressure ridge."
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Post by daveh on Feb 13, 2011 4:51:25 GMT -5
Wayne,
Thanks. I thought that was at least a possibility.
Dave.
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Post by pompiere on Feb 13, 2011 8:40:40 GMT -5
Dave, Out on Lake Erie, they call it "shove ice" and the piles can get pretty high. People think that when the lake is frozen from shore to shore, it is one solid mass, but it is really a lot of individual pieces squeezed together. It can get interesting for the ice fishermen when the wind causes the ice floes to start moving apart. Sometimes they don't even know what is happening until they start to walk back to shore and find a huge gap where before there was only a crack.
Doug, that must be some fast moving water. The river in my town is frozen solid. The snowmobilers use it as a highway/race course.
Ron
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Post by daveh on Feb 13, 2011 11:09:24 GMT -5
We seldom get cold spells which last long enough to get really good ice. I do remember in the winter of 1962-3 the sea being frozen. It was soon after that the experts were predicting the next ice age. Now the experts talk about global warming: some of them are the same experts, too.
I presume there are times when you can cross the border between Canada and the USA by walking over one of the great lakes. "The one that got away" near enough did it, though I think he crossed the St Lawrence River and needed a boat for some of the journey. His name was Franz von Werra - I wonder if his family anything to do with the Werra camera.
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Post by pompiere on Feb 14, 2011 23:57:40 GMT -5
Right now, Lake Erie has about a foot of ice from Ohio to Ontario, so you could walk to Canada, but most people would rather drive or take an air boat. Many years ago I remember seeing a picture in a newspaper where someone had tried to move a house across the ice to one of the islands. They had almost made it when the truck broke through the ice. With the warm weather this week, the ice pack will be breaking up and starting to move around.
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Post by daveh on Feb 15, 2011 4:25:29 GMT -5
Ron, That houseboat, they should have used balloons as in the film 'Up'. Going back to the early 1960s, in the way back from Norway and Sweden, we stayed a night on a camping site in Amsterdam. It was called "The Ice Rink", but there didn't seem to be an ice rink around. It had nice hard standing for Caravans, with a raised perimeter of grass (obviously to improve the drainage . Anyway it rained all night. When we got up in the morning the entire hard standing had 6" of water over it. That was obviously the ice rink: come winter they would flood it and let it freeze over. At least the truck wouldn't have fallen through.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2011 10:38:09 GMT -5
Over the years a number of automobiles have ended up at the bottom of the lake in my photo when drivers (usually in their teens) have thought the ice would be thick enough to allow them to slide around. It seldom gets that cold for that long here.
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Post by nikonbob on Feb 15, 2011 11:20:16 GMT -5
Yea, around here there are cars, trucks and ski doos sitting on the bottom of lakes and rivers having fallen through the ice. Almost inevitable with ice fishing, recreational snowmobiling, racing vehicles on ice tracks and some remote communities only have road access in winter via ice roads. A bit of risky business sometimes.
Bob
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