Official Ice-Out 2014 Thread

[Island Girl]

Thank you all for participating in this year's ice-out thread. Your comments, pictures and videos are most valued by those of us who need our ice-out fix. On this forum we can indulge our passion for the Lakes Region. Ice-out has been declared... be safe out there!

Let's have a great season and look for good weather.

Again, thanks for your participation!

IG
:D

[upthesaukee]

There's my guess for Ice In.... oooooopppppssss....wrong thread. :D

[Island Girl]

Good grief... no ice in yet, uppy!

:)

[GBerg]

In case you like graphs...

[fatlazyless]

Apparently, and somewhat like a frost heaved possessed road that flattens out once the ice underneath melts away .....the Cattle Landing town dock has returned back to horizontal probably thanks to the wind driven waves of late ....... it looked like a level would have it right on the bubble.....as I drove past this morning!

It is a very heavy concrete construction floating dock, held in place by three pylons, and apparently, the wind driven waves of the last 18-hours were enough to shake it loose from its topsy-turvy, somewhat twisted platform performance and return it to a horizontal, all-level and very usable flat surface.

So's .....how abouts that? ....... just like the NH frost heaved roads .....this 125-thousand dollar town dock is smart enuf to self-correct itself.......ayuh!


Will someone please call town hall and tell them to come remove their yellow safety barriers and yellow csi tape because the dock is back to normal except that the three pylons are still all pushed out of position which may not make any difference since the dock sort of functions as a template for alignment, or something.

[Happy Gourmand]

Apparently, and somewhat like a frost heaved possessed road that flattens out once the ice underneath melts away .....the Cattle Landing town dock has returned back to horizontal probably thanks to the wind driven waves of late ....... it looked like a level would have it right on the bubble.....as I drove past this morning!

It is a very heavy concrete construction floating dock, held in place by three pylons, and apparently, the wind driven waves of the last 18-hours were enough to shake it loose from its topsy-turvy, somewhat twisted platform performance and return it to a horizontal, all-level and very usable flat surface.

So's .....how abouts that? ....... just like the NH frost heaved roads .....this 125-thousand dollar town dock is smart enuf to self-correct itself.......ayuh!


Will someone please call town hall and tell them to come remove their yellow safety barriers and yellow csi tape because the dock is back to normal except that the three pylons are still all pushed out of position which may not make any difference since the dock sort of functions as a template for alignment, or something.
Either that, or they fixed it!!

[fatlazyless]

Either that, or they fixed it!!

Maybe it was fixed by either the DPW or a construction company but I doubt it, and my best guess is that it was originally damaged by a moving ice sheet and then the big wind driven waves earlier this week were strong enough to shake the wobbly two floating dock sections loose from the three repositioned fiberglass pylons and return them to their normal floating position.

It looks like at least one pylon is damaged enough to need to be replaced, plus maybe two of the dock pylon sockets were slightly twisted out of correct position.

Maybe a seasonal dock that gets removed every thanksgiving could have been used here?

[Music Man]

Well, today is May 12th - imagine if we were setting a new record for ice-out....

;)

[Sal]

My wife's family has a place on Back Oak Lake in northern Wisconsin. The lake is a little smaller than Moultonborough Bay.
Their "ice out" was yesterday, May 12, 2014. Brrrrr.