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Post by Toad on Apr 24, 2014 16:57:31 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Apr 24, 2014 17:10:32 GMT -5
I've been watching the current ice condition map. Lake Huron by my house has been open for a while now. Little Traverse Bay at Petoskey was frozen last weekend when I was there. Ice Map
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 24, 2014 18:02:40 GMT -5
must be that gull-darned global warming... tee hee
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 24, 2014 20:05:38 GMT -5
*LOL* Nope, "climate change". The world is getting hotter cause of humans, so God is freezing our asses off as divine payback.....Mel
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 28, 2014 23:04:59 GMT -5
I've been watching the current ice condition map. Lake Huron by my house has been open for a while now. Little Traverse Bay at Petoskey was frozen last weekend when I was there. Ice MapAmazing. Nothing like a big chunk of ice to kiss the hull of your boat. Maybe it will beat the shores up good and give you a great shore to rock hunt Rob.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Apr 29, 2014 5:44:32 GMT -5
I've been thinking the same thing. I'm planning to go looking for Petoskey stones as soon as the Ice leaves. I was there a couple weeks ago and the water along the shore was open, but not very far. I picked up a few rocks, but I was disappointed that there weren't more churned up by the ice. They're all covered in algae, so it's hard to tell which are Petoskey stones. There are areas where you can tell the ice dragged over them because they're much cleaner. I'm hoping that the ice gets blown into the shore I hunt and bulldozes it.
The power of blowing ice is amazing. I grew up on an inland lake and saw the results. At the south end of the lake, there's a road close to the lake that prevents people from moving their docks and hoists very far out of the water. Every year, some of those would be mangled by the ice that blew onto that beach. I witnessed it once when it blew onto our beach. There was a loud rumbling as we were eating dinner and we all ran down to see it. We had a boulder wall by the beach with a pump house on top for watering the lawn. The ice piled up four or five feet into the wall and almost took out the pump. We all watched as it moved closer and closer to the pump. A piece of ice pushed right up to the pipe sticking out toward the lake and we all new it was gone and then it suddenly stopped. It was a really cool thing to see.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 29, 2014 8:47:30 GMT -5
Nature has a lot of power. Big lakes, big ice, big wind, big waves. All sounds like a recipe for serious bulldozing. This year's ice crop has been covered on the media and educated me on the incredible thickness. Then I see your ice map. Just the danger to boats and human life from a boat sinking in water that cold water is frightening. Desert washes being gouged by heavy floods, hurricanes eroding beaches, flooding rivers w/ice or w/out ice -all interesting
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Post by milto on Apr 29, 2014 8:53:04 GMT -5
Leaving nice warm Arizona to go back to this,must have rocks in our head!!Spent winter in Yuma,AZ and summer in Port Wing, WI on the south shore of Lake Superior.I use the term SUMMER loosely as we will not see summer till July this year, maybe it will fall on Tuesday this year!
milto
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 29, 2014 10:21:14 GMT -5
*LOL* Nope, "climate change". The world is getting hotter cause of humans, so God is freezing our asses off as divine payback.....Mel
Divine payback, love it! Yeah, arrogant little humans, thinking they are important enough to mess with God's grand design... That'll teach us to leave it alone and quit screwing things up.
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