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Originally Posted by Barney Bear
Circulators do not prevent damage from ice floes. Each year, we hope that the wind is blowing from the north at our location on East Bear Island and towards our breakwater. If the wind is strong, and from the southeast, we frequently sustain damage at our dock.
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That is correct, the only thing the circulators etc. do is prevent the ice from forming... In the spring as the ice pack breaks up, mother nature can do what ever she wants, and there is a tremendous amount of force that an iceberg can build up.
When I lived in Vermont on the Champlain Islands, we had a day where the causeway road was almost closed, because the wind shift, and moved pieces of ice up and onto the road....