RIVER OF ICE

ice in niagara river
While many of you are enjoying balmy weather, Western New York saw snowflakes this week. Winter refuses to relax its icy grip on us! Here’s what the ice looks like in the Niagara River (just a mile from my house). I woke up to a 29 degree temperature this morning! We’ll have ice chunks floating around for at least another month. Enjoy your warmer weather. We won’t experience any warmth like yours for quite a while!

22 thoughts on “RIVER OF ICE

  1. Jeff Meyerson

    Nice rust!

    It was 38 here this morning, 28 as close as Poughkeepsie. I was wondering how cold it was up in the frozen north.

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    1. george Post author

      Jeff, we’re still dealing with freezing temperatures. And all the ice in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario will only delay things.

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  2. Richard R.

    George, I’m sure sorry you have to put up with that, though I guess it keeps your plant allergies in check (looking on the bright side). At 7:00 am here it was 43, going to get up to 59, mostly sunny but with some showers (perfect Portland weather, just beautiful!). It will continue to warm up in the coming days with a possibility of 78 (!) by Monday, then back to normal for this time of year, mid 60s.

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  3. Deb

    Here on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain we’re expecting to be in the low 80s. It’s been warm and muggy here for the past week with buckets of rain every afternoon (so much that we’ve even had flash floods). It’s been so warm, I’m expecting the termites to swarm (yuck!) any day now.

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    1. george Post author

      Prashant, I’m not a fan of heat. I prefer temperatures in the 60s or 70s. And I don’t like humidity, either. I would wilt in your 85 F temperatures!

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  4. Wolf Böhrendt

    Wow!
    This scene reminds me of one of our holidays.

    It’s part of a long story that I like to tell – getting a bit OT on the way, but if you’re interested.

    When I met my wife in Hungary we were both already over 60 years old (with some “baggage” of course) – actually we were introduced or you might even say forced to meet each other by a common friend who told both of us: I have the perfect partner for you …
    As it turned out that was true, even the hobbies like listening to Blues and Rock or reading SF and Fantasy turned out to be the same …
    So when in 2008 Hungary became part of the US visa waiver programme I asked her if she would like to go on holiday in the USA which she had no experience with – apart from all those TV series that are shown world wide …
    In November 2008 we went to Miami Beach for a week to get her acquainted with the US way of life – she really enjoyed it and when we had another two weeks on our hand in March 2009 I asked her what else she’d like to see because flights were really cheap then …
    She said “New York” and I asked what else in the neighbourhood? So she came up with Niagara Falls …
    I made a plan: Two weekends in NYC (hotels also were relatively cheap then) and in between two nights in the SheratonFallsview on the Canadian side.
    It was great, unbelievable for her – standing on Times Square she cried and told me that she had never thought this could be real – after spending more than 40 years behind the Iron Curtain.
    And when we took our car to Canada and passed over the Rainbow Bridge seeing the frozen Falls she didn’t know what to say.
    To make a long story short:
    We stepped out od the hotel elevator and looked for our room (18th floor) – of course at the really cheap price that we had paid I expected it to be on the side facing the city but to my surprise we had a Falls View room – could even open the window a bit to hear the noise from the falls and in the evening we watched the spectacular lighted mountains of ice …
    Every time I see pictures like this I remember those wonderful days!

    PS:
    On our way back to NYC we even passed Bethel Woods – where the Woodstock concert happened and went into the museum there – another common highlight for us to remember.

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  5. Wolf Böhrendt

    Yes, we Europeans are shielded by the Gulf stream from those weather extremes that you have in the US North East. Friends which live near NYC also told me about having no electricity for days and being cut off from the world, even the internet was gone for them …

    On the other hand you probably (hopefully …) are prepared for this. I also wish you a nice summer!

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    1. george Post author

      Wolf, we invested in a stand-by natural gas generator so if the power goes out (and it does) we have lights and heat (but we lose the Internet).

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  6. Wolf Böhrendt

    Seems you Americans still have that pioneer spirit!

    Heard something similar from people in Florida that they have a generator and my wife’s relatives in Hendersonville near Nashville also seemed quite cool when we were visiting them and talking about the coming hurricane season …
    We Europeans would be devastated in situations like that – almost degenerate, that’s what we are.

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