Destructive Ice Jam
Jan 28, 2018 16:37:03 #
A friend was near the Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson River this afternoon, and she sent me this email.
"...then an ice jam pushed up the picnic deck. We heard it. The family on the deck ran just before it hit. Nachos everywhere. Bob helped the lighthouse keeper move picnic tables off the deck. Then their newly rebuilt supplies barge took off down river. The lighthouse guy jumped in a row boat and tried to retrieve it, but the barge got stuck in a floating ice jam. So he rowed back. Coast Guard called in."
What would the lighthouse guy do when he caught up with the barge? Row it back to the lighthouse?
"...then an ice jam pushed up the picnic deck. We heard it. The family on the deck ran just before it hit. Nachos everywhere. Bob helped the lighthouse keeper move picnic tables off the deck. Then their newly rebuilt supplies barge took off down river. The lighthouse guy jumped in a row boat and tried to retrieve it, but the barge got stuck in a floating ice jam. So he rowed back. Coast Guard called in."
What would the lighthouse guy do when he caught up with the barge? Row it back to the lighthouse?
Jan 29, 2018 05:07:25 #
Perhaps he thought he could get his beer supply off the Barge and on to his row boat jerry!
Jan 29, 2018 09:17:20 #
I remember seeing the huge ice chunks flowing down the Detroit River one year when the ice started to break up. Awesome.
Jan 29, 2018 13:51:44 #
Doddy wrote:
Perhaps he thought he could get his beer supply off the Barge and on to his row boat jerry!
Jan 29, 2018 16:34:19 #
The most awesome thing was the ice (chunks the size of houses) Rolling and tumbling down the Yukon River in Galena Alaska during spring breakup. Saw this year's ago when in the Air Force . . . We were just visiting the detachment there and I didn't have a camera along . . . 😦
Jan 29, 2018 17:15:24 #
The Saugerties Lighthouse now has a "lighthouse keeper"?
Back in the '90's, I saw ice at Malden just a few miles N. of Saugerties, that looked over 2' thick. There are old photos of trucks driving out on the river ice.
Back in the '90's, I saw ice at Malden just a few miles N. of Saugerties, that looked over 2' thick. There are old photos of trucks driving out on the river ice.
Jan 29, 2018 22:06:44 #
Here in the Adirondacks we dread ice out every year. A quick thaw with a couple inches of rain and massive amounts of ice start moving downriver... and then a narrow spot or a bridge or some other obstruction causes an ice dam. Very wild to watch, but extremely dangerous. The last one I watched was on the Ausable River and the ice jammed under a bridge. The water behind it rose over 4 ft in 15 minutes.
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