Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive
of PorchPix log entry of 17 January 07
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Ice
but not nice
31January08: The
wind blew all day yesterday, at sustained speeds of 45 mph with
gusts to 70 mph.
We
took a drive in the afternoon, sans camera, dammit! We saw lots
of ice at Broderick Park at the foot of Ferry Street.
We
went back today to take pix. The ice boom across the mouth of
Lake Erie just above the Peace Bridge had either bounced, as
it sometimes does in high wind, or simply had been breeched.
Wind-shifted ice jammed the river, the Black Rock Canal, and
the walkway between the two.
Ice
decorates the railing at the river's edge in Broderick
Park, at the foot of Ferry Street on the west side of
Buffalo. Peace Bridge in the background. The river current
here is about 5 mph. |
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There
was ice everywhere, on shore and off, and in the water,
too. The ice boom stretches above the Peace Bridge to
block the large floes from clogging the intake at the
other end of the Niagara River where water runs electric
turbines. |
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Buildings
in the background are on the Canadian side of the Niagara
River, in Fort Erie.
- For
larger version, click on pic
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| Overview:
The line of posts marks the edge of a narrow, paved walkway
that stretches toward downtown and divides the Black Rock
Canal and the river. The space between the posts on each
side of the walkway was jammed with ice to the tops of the
four-foot-tall posts. The ice behind was stacked even higher,
all by the wind. |
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| The
ice up close. |
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| All
ice, all different, in texture, tone, and shape. |
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The view to the south from the bridge over the Black Rock
Canal to Broderick Park. |
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