tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post4212450105174281278..comments2024-03-12T14:02:09.820-04:00Comments on Riverdaze…: BREAKUP!Grizz…………http://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-684045545809316362009-02-09T10:38:00.000-05:002009-02-09T10:38:00.000-05:00Giggles…Nahh-h. A passing train in a New York subw...Giggles…<BR/><BR/>Nahh-h. A passing train in a New York subway is scary; New York City is scary. <BR/>This was just good old raw nature. A river version of a marching band. <BR/><BR/>Awesome, though.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-81628467226086305842009-02-09T08:32:00.000-05:002009-02-09T08:32:00.000-05:00Yipes! Sounds scary and awesome!Yipes! Sounds scary and awesome!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-56230917939858782009-02-08T21:42:00.000-05:002009-02-08T21:42:00.000-05:00Jenn…It was really the rising water more than warm...Jenn…<BR/><BR/>It was really the rising water more than warming temperatures that broke our ice today. You time will come, whether by wind or slow melt. Don't worry, we won't keep spring all to ourselves forever; and I'm not imagining spring, even in Ohio, is anymore more awake than last week's groundhog.<BR/><BR/>I felt sorry for those Lake Erie fishermen. I guess about an 8-mile section of ice broke off, stranding several hundred people along its length. But a sunny, slightly warmer Saturday, in early-February…and after they'd been fishing safely (or as safely as ice fishing can be) for weeks, I'm not sure you could expect them not to be on the ice. (Excuse the double negative.) It was probably the south wind that caused the break-off. <BR/><BR/>I've certainly made plenty of serious and potentially fatal mistakes during my various outdoor adventures. Sometimes, the thing that got me into a near-fatal situation was so small, so easily overlooked, so unimportant normally that no one would have given heed beforehand. There's an old saying that God protects fools, kids, and preachers…but I've regularly come to believe he works hardest protecting fishermen. Now and then, though, one of us ignores that hedge and slips away. Not all of life's lessons are easily learned or learned without pain and tears. There is always, always a price.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-32876410961641698002009-02-08T21:23:00.000-05:002009-02-08T21:23:00.000-05:00KGMom…When the main load of ice came downstream to...KGMom…<BR/><BR/>When the main load of ice came downstream today, it was thundering into bankside trees whose roots were in the water, which caused them to shudder, and I watched it take out several big driftpiles with some logs (sycamore I'd guess) perhaps three feet across and twenty long. And this from a river seldom wider anywhere than 100 feet. A truly big river's ice would doubtless be an awesome sight.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-87613234636290327802009-02-08T21:11:00.000-05:002009-02-08T21:11:00.000-05:00We're still iced in, despite a hole from melt wate...We're still iced in, despite a hole from melt water. Our wee lake is 400 m x 2 km. How about the rescue on Lake Erie?! My blog post had several comments!!! :-) People were less than positive about those who would venture out.<BR/><BR/>I love the breaking up of the ice. Some years it just puddles on top and then sinks away. <BR/><BR/>Other years, the wind blows it up on our shores with a crackling sounds of crystals on the shore. <BR/><BR/>We're in for ice and snow for awhile longer. It hovers around 0 C., 32 F. in the day.Jenn Jilkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05259681360456905055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-46719260151718996532009-02-08T19:58:00.000-05:002009-02-08T19:58:00.000-05:00The break up of river ice is always a thrilling, s...The break up of river ice is always a thrilling, sometimes dangerous thing. We live within several miles (not on the banks of) the mighty Susquehanna River. And we were in this area when Hurricane Agnes blew through here (in 1972) and saw the horrific floods--not caused by ice. Then in 1998 we had a tremendous ice jam that took out a bridge!KGMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165941950953938943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-32278878305524018042009-02-08T19:09:00.000-05:002009-02-08T19:09:00.000-05:00Pablo…Today's ice mass probably wasn't as loud as ...Pablo…<BR/><BR/>Today's ice mass probably wasn't as loud as the ice you heard—though it could be heard inside the stone cottage, which is closer that I ever would have imagined before moving here to being soundproof. But it was neat the way it appeared, passed, and departed in such a short time…leaving the river strangely empty,Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-9971395880522186262009-02-08T18:57:00.000-05:002009-02-08T18:57:00.000-05:00I remember visiting the lock and dam on the Missis...I remember visiting the lock and dam on the Mississippi River about this time of the year to see the eagles. Behind the dam was a huge pile of river ice, broken apart upstream and accumulated. It would grind and moan as I sat by and listened. As much fun as the eagles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com