"Official" Ice Out Thread

[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by pondguy

Beware of sunken ice in Center Harbor bay.

Each and every year, it's the same ice out there, on top of the lake. What happens is that ice sinks down to the bottom in April, and then the same ice re-surfaces back up in January.

Is the cycle of ice ...... been going on around here since 1621.

[Barney Bear]

Perhaps the ice was gone before midnight on the 23rd (which was this old moth-eaten bear's guess). 🐻

[Descant]

Originally Posted by Barney Bear

Perhaps the ice was gone before midnight on the 23rd (which was this old moth-eaten bear's guess). 🐻

There used to be a raft in Weirs Bay with a flagpole that fell when the ice could not support it. That triggered a clock and an "after dark" ice out was possible. Now that we use a visual inspection, I don't think an after dark guess will win.

For the climate changers: 131 years ago there were no dock bubblers. 75 years ago, there were no dock bubblers. 50 years ago, only a few. Now, in some areas, you can't walk from shore to solid ice. Even islanders are using bubblers where not so long ago there was no electricity. Do such things affect the waters/ice? Perhaps not individually, but combined with other human activity...

[8gv]

Ice out has been declared but at the wrong date and time.

It should have been declared at 3pm on Monday as all the polls indicated it would.

I demand a recount, investigation and a do over!!!

[Bear Islander]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Each and every year, it's the same ice out there, on top of the lake. What happens is that ice sinks down to the bottom in April, and then the same ice re-surfaces back up in January.

Is the cycle of ice ...... been going on around here since 1621.

So... the Pilgrims had something to do with the "cycle of ice"?

[steve-on-mark]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

So... the Pilgrims had something to do with the "cycle of ice"?

Of course....they really wanted to take the Mayflower to Endicott Rock, not Plymouth Rock. They couldn't....iced in...

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[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

So... the Pilgrims had something to do with the "cycle of ice"?

Why yes, they did, not in an historical sense, but in a chronological sense. Prior to that winter back in 1621, there was no records kept, but starting on Feb 1, 1621, thy Pilgrims established an ice out cash lottery known as the Ice Cycle Lottery which quickly became known as the cash icicle.

[MAXUM]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Each and every year, it's the same ice out there, on top of the lake. What happens is that ice sinks down to the bottom in April, and then the same ice re-surfaces back up in January.

Is the cycle of ice ...... been going on around here since 1621.

Is that a noodle assisted resurfacing?