Anyone from Duluth, Mn. area?

flying belgian · Feb 14, 2010

I have heard that some years when the ice breaks up on Lake Superior it will push up on the shore line as high as the houses. I would really like to see that. Is someone around there that can tell me when that happens. I'm about 4 1/2 hours from there so give me some warning.

Loren in MN · Feb 14, 2010

I've seen it on Millacs Lake but not quite that high. It depends on the warming temps and the wind direction. If not much wind during the melt down, then not too much piled up, strong winds before ice is melted and break-up starts -then you can get high ice pile up.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 14, 2010

I live 50 miles north of Duluth but have never seen the ice do that but i"m sure it does.

old · Feb 14, 2010

I have never seen it but my dad told story's about it doing that plus story's about the iron road up that way. Have you even heard of the iron road??

Spook · Feb 15, 2010

It's happened on the lower lakes also. The Detroit papers had pics, maybe 20 years ago, of houses being crushed. There it takes a strong east wind to get the ice moving.

Will- Tx.-Mn. · Feb 15, 2010

In March of 2002 I visited my friend in Nova Scotia,Canada flew there with only my Drivers license..

I was in Sydney,and one day I came to a small harbor and it looked like any other harbor,with water and shores and you could easily see the ocean, and returned to the same harbor few days later and I was shocked at all the huge chunks of white ice!

Hard to describe but incredibly huge much bigger then automobiles,the harbor was full of them,but you could still see the ocean and it was like it always is just water except for the harbor as it was all ice chunks and but no water!, it was tempting to just walk down in there like a cavern still and silent, but terribly scary looking and then as fast as they appeared two days later they were gone!

Will

chevytaHOE5674 · Feb 15, 2010

Happens somewhat frequently along the western edge of Michigan as the prevailing winds are from the west. Never had it crush houses (we are smart enough to build far enough back from shore, and much of our shore is rocky cliffs), but the ice gets pretty tall, i mean this weekend already there are icebergs 20+ feet tall.

Edit: forgot about these pictures. They are from downstate michigan in the saginaw bay from a few years back. Gale force winds blew the ice on shore and the houses there are built within feet of the water.

bigt 68 · Feb 15, 2010

i live in nothern wi and i have seen the ice piled up 25 feet on the lake side of park point you have to have some really strong east winds it is awesome when it happens

Anonymous-0 · Feb 15, 2010

Years ago all the roads were red with ore dust along with everyone's car and trucks. Thats before the entrances were paved going into the plants. Also the process was changed in the 70's to make the ore into Taconite pellets this probably helped the most to cut down on red ore dust.

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