Lake Erie Frozen Over

[Richard in Smithville]

I walked down to the beach yesterday while at mums and snaped some picks of Lake Erie and all the ice.Lake Erie is the one Great Lake that is known to freeze all the way across. The dirty stuff is the ice that extends around 250 feet past where the waters edge should be. You can see the transition where the ice started melting and froze again. There is no open water here.







You can see where the ice has pushed up to create the little hills. Further out you can see how the ice is pushing up in large slabs way out in the lake.

The final picture shows my family standing on five and a half feet of thick ice that was pushed up on shore. That end of that concrete platform beside them is above our heads in summer.



I hope you liked the pictures.

[Ed62]

That's a lot of ice! Recently on the news, they told of a large number of people (maybe 130) who were on the lake, when a large piece broke loose, and floated out away from shore. They had to be rescued, and all but 1 survived.

Ed

[jziegler]

That's really impressive ice.

A few weeks ago, the Delaware river down here was pretty much frozen over. Only for a day or two. It's definately been a very cold winter.

Jim

[crokett]

My in-laws have a cabin in Minnesota. It is on a much smaller lake, but even then, the destructive power of ice is amazing. Two summers ago I helped my FIL repour some concrete steps leading down to the lake (he had some laborers bust up and haul off the old ones) because over the years the ice had pushed them up about 1 1/2 feet.

[SARGE..g-47]

I do enjoy "seeing" pictures of the ice and that is a great looking trio of Eskimo's standing beside the lake.

If it makes you feel better... my shop was 59* Farenheit this morning at 8 AM EST. It took almost 20 minutes for the gas heater to raise it to 70*. And even though relativley warm now...

We are expecting our "first" of the season Big Snow Storm latter in the afternoon as a cold front is swooping in to combine with this rain. They say we could get from 1"-3" of snow on the north side of Atlanta and it might not melt until late Monday or mid-day Tuesday so we just have to stay home and wait it out. Brrrrr.... that's pretty harsh conditions I tell you.

Enjoyed the pictures in all seriousness and a nice tribe you have there. Enjoy your kids as they just seem to dis-appear into families of their own about soon as it takes to wink.

[RAFlorida]

Did a lot of ice fishing up on Lake Erie

back in the 60s. Out from East Harbor maybe a hundred yards or so. We most times had a shanty on sledds to pull it out on the ice. Really enjoyed the time spent fishing there, (until the mercury in the lake made eating the fish a no no.)
Many times you could walk all the way out to Kelly’s Island, which is about 3 ½ miles out. On a sunny day the frozen lake is a sight to behold.
Great pictures for sure, brings back memories. How many wind turbines are there in that area?

[ironhat]

Neat pics, Richard. Back in the 'early '70's, when we used to get a lot of snow and very low temps, we lived along a large stream which would freeze over. In the spring we would be awakened by the ice breaking and forming pressure mounds that would suddenly release. Odd sounds.

[Richard in Smithville]

Thanks for the comments guys. My thoughts were to show some of the southern guys something they don't get to experience without travelling.

Ed: I heard about the guys on the ice. The dummies bridged a large crack in the ice( if I remember right) so they could get over deeper water.

Sarge: I'm happy if I can heat my shop to 59F. And those eskimo's were feeling cold

David: Around here the smart folks have stairs that can be pulled up for the winter.

RAFlorida: There are three more turbines out of the picture. They are part of a wind farm. The turbines are made by a local company.

[drillman88]

This southern boy is glad he would need to travel to see that kind of frigid landscape. I likes the more temperate zones.