The title of today's post might sound as if I am really tired of ice, snow and winter in general. Well, I am, but what I'm referring to is a situation that's been happening with ice called an ice shove. Last year was the first time I ever heard of this happening, but it's when the wind SHOVES massive amounts of ice onto the shore, into houses, onto roads, or wherever it wants to go.
We think we saw this happening down at our main beach area today. All of the ice that up until yesterday had been part of an ice sheet out in the middle of the Lake Superior was being blown southward...toward our south shore...and this is what it looked like by our channel and pier. Watch the waves break out in line with the end of the pier.
This happened in a big way yesterday on the west side of Mille Lacs lake in Minnesota. Here is a link to a KSTP-TV news story about it. Unfortunately there is a 13-second commercial at the beginning but it shows what happened to a couple of houses along the lakeshore, and it closed Highway 169 for a while. Leann's mother was driving along that road and was held up for a while because of the ice shove. Here's the link.
Perhaps if the sun remembered how to shine, the ice would just melt instead. Not this week though!
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