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Ice dam forming by my docks
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I hope we'll be ok. We had an ice dam down river a couple of years ago. When it let loose, the ice and water probably flowed at 20 miles per hour or more. No problems then.
Really nothing we can do other tha watch the show. Well, maybe if I had a stick of dynomite!
Really nothing we can do other tha watch the show. Well, maybe if I had a stick of dynomite!
I am hoping you are wrong. These docks' pilings go in about 20 feet. I've seen 3 foot diameter trees hit the docks at 20mph after the last ice dam. The docks just sort of shudder.
We had to replace the sea wall last year at a cost of over $110,000. It was only in about 8 feet. We now are in about 24 feet.
We had to replace the sea wall last year at a cost of over $110,000. It was only in about 8 feet. We now are in about 24 feet.
The water is flowing under the ice cap, so that probably helps.
I was looking at homes on Green Bay. Very few sites with deep water to put a dock in, but everybody there takes everything out every year. The docks are all on wheels and they pull them out with trucks. There are some permanent boat lifts, but those are set inside caisons (sp?) like used around bridge supports in rivers. They probably have more in their lift and supporting structure than their boat!
I was looking at homes on Green Bay. Very few sites with deep water to put a dock in, but everybody there takes everything out every year. The docks are all on wheels and they pull them out with trucks. There are some permanent boat lifts, but those are set inside caisons (sp?) like used around bridge supports in rivers. They probably have more in their lift and supporting structure than their boat!
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I have posted these before but this is what happens on Lake Milacs here in Minnesota in the spring. Imagine what it would be like if all of your stuff was left in the water?
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Wow!!!!!!!!!!! 
Toss explosives in the water. Or a couple gallons of hot sauce
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I have seen bubblers on Lakes or even in marina's but I don't think they would work on a river.
A bubbler won't do any good where there is current.
Right now the entire river has a layer of ice. When it warms up enough to melt some of this ice, we will have a show. With the ice breaking and flowing, and the snow melting, it will be something.
Well, I hope it gets to the point it melts!
Right now the entire river has a layer of ice. When it warms up enough to melt some of this ice, we will have a show. With the ice breaking and flowing, and the snow melting, it will be something.
Well, I hope it gets to the point it melts!
The water is flowing again along our sea wall, but the rest of the river is iced up. It is raining and the weather is supposed to go up to 40 or more degrees Friday and Saturday.
If the major flow occurs during daylight hours, I'll take a vid ad post a link to it here.
If the major flow occurs during daylight hours, I'll take a vid ad post a link to it here.
I am thinking that maybe Al Gore didn't tell the whole truth, and maybe around December (Sept. in Alaska) it turns into "Global Cooling", and the "Warming" he was referring to is really called "Spring" in most places North of the Equator....
When snow plowing becomes snow management all the fun goes away. 