ICE OUT!
Sunday, March 18th, 2007It started moving around Noon, and blasted it’s way down the river (2 miles) like a slow moving freight train. Smashing and grinding anything in it’s way. (mostly docks that should have been removed for winter).
1. Before the ice crusher came.
2. About 20 minutes later, starting to break up.
3. The full grinding crush, 15 minute later, speeding along at about 9 knots. I have a short movie of it, but I thought it was to big to post on the site, email me if you’d like to see it, it’s about 5 Mb.
Right now, at 10am Sunday morning on the 18th of March, the Au Gres river is clear out to about 400 yards from the mouth of the river. The 2007 St. Paddies day thaw is nearly complete! Out at the mouth of the river, the Bay is open water, except for the ice bergs.
This puppy, we’ll call it Mount Au Gres for now, is a mile or two out off of Point Au Gres. Just a guess now, but comparing it to the size of the tanker’s that go by out there, I’d say it’s about 250 feet long and 70 feet high. The smaller ones in the forground, are about the size of small school buses.
Hope ya’ll had a Happy St. Patrick’s day, ( the Guinness was much better than the Green Beer up at Dunleavy’s and their corned beef and cabbage was great with either 
)
On to a short bit of heavier thought:
A wonderful quote from Ronald Reagan:
“we’ve been tempted to believe that society has bcome too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?”
Those who would give away our preciously won freedoms, should be washed away, like the melting ice in the above photos.
P.S. Check out the website of The Gathering of Eagles .
~~GreyBeard
