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Re: O.T. ICE SAFETY (long post_)
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Posted by LA in Wi. on February 01, 2007 at 07:48:42 from (216.138.178.104):
In Reply to: O.T. ICE SAFETY (long post_) posted by phil lowe on January 31, 2007 at 15:19:43:
Near the end of your message you wrote "I still think the ice was safe".... Here in Wisconsin I have been reminded several times by friends who always say "Ice is NEVER safe". These friends are divers who help bring up vehicles that fell thru and are at lake bottom. I lived on a 17,000 A. lake here for 24 yrs; no matter how cold and for how long you would find ice up to 24" thick and then not very far away the ice could be barely thick enough to walk on; lakes do have slow water currents even in the winter and that plays havoc with ice thicknesses. Trickiest is snow cover as it insulates ice. Deep booming sounds (especially at night with below zero temps) usually mean ice is thickening...it then expands and needs to push itself around a bit. Last winter we were ice fishing 200 mi north of the border near Red Lake, Ontario. Ice was 4ft thick! Beautiful fluffy snow was 2 ft thick. Power auger motor was almost touching ice surface when it got thru to water. We "knew" ice was safe. Then we heard next day that 50 mi. north of us (up same road we used) a guy with a bulldozer broke thru and drowned. (He was building an ice road for 130,000 lb logging truck trains to use). So it's all relative: Is ice safe? For what? Walking on it? Driving on it? For a bulldozer?
Ice is NEVER safe. Oh yeah...we caught our limit of big walleyes!!
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