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Ice on Superior - The Winter that won't end!
Wawa-news ^ | 4/22/14 | Brenda Grundt

Posted on 04/25/2014 2:08:40 AM PDT by Libloather

Spring seems to be taking forever to arrive, but we are not really seeing the worst of the late spring.

The Great Lakes, and Lake Superior is holding on to their ice. As a result the freighters that normally travel the Great Lakes are having their fair share of problems. This has been a very long winter season, beginning with the Great Lakes freezing on December 6th, not allowing Northwest Indiana steel mills to stockpile materials. Glen Nekvasil, vice president for Lake Carriers' Association explained that lake freighters are struggling to make the voyage across Lake Superior despite the thick shelf ice and windrows of up to 14-feet-tall. Those delays caused Gary Works to run at reduced capacity. "This is the worst winter since 1993 or 1994," Nekvasil said. "The last time ice breakers were out this late in the season convoying vessles was 1996. It's been a very brutal winter."

Closer to home, Essar Steel is receiving freighter shipments of coal from the south, however iron ore from Duluth/Superior are being delayed. Essar Steel is receiving ore via rail.

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To: libstripper

I had the same experience swimming in the upper Columbia River one summer. We walked barefoot down the beach burning our feet on the black sands and jumped into the river only to meet with 40 degree water. We stood on the shoreline jumping back and forth from water to beach trying to decide to try and run back up the beach or suffer the water. We took the beach run back for our shoes.


41 posted on 04/25/2014 8:16:20 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Libloather

Gee, didn’t Al Gore tell us that by now there would be palm trees growing in northern Minnesota and snow would be seen only in photos?


42 posted on 04/25/2014 8:16:56 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Libloather

43 posted on 04/25/2014 8:17:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: The Great RJ
The reporting is all lies and the photos are all doctored, don't you know?

You deniers! sheesh....(lol)

44 posted on 04/25/2014 8:19:10 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: JudyinCanada
Dress in layers and do not believe the forecasts.

They said it would be 63 (17c) today, it's 42 (6c).

45 posted on 04/25/2014 8:23:55 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Ken H

I noticed that, too - this reporter obviously never got any ‘red marks’ on her writing assignments back in school.


46 posted on 04/25/2014 8:35:39 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Brrrrr. Where are you? We are going to be in Lake City, Michigan.


47 posted on 04/25/2014 8:38:06 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada
Outside Rockford, you will be about 75 miles north.

Don't plan on swimming in the lake. :)

48 posted on 04/25/2014 8:56:05 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: IronJack
In 1975 or 1976 I hiked the length of Isle Royale. I stank, itched horribly, and was filthy by the end and desperately needed a bath. To do so, I found a small, shallow bay that looked like it might not be too cold. Using a tee shirt as a wash cloth, I sponge bathed while standing in the not-too-cold water. Then I rinsed using the tee shirt and water from the little bay. Although cold, it wasn't too bad and I never felt better after a bath.
49 posted on 04/25/2014 11:10:07 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: BobL

the Iron Ore is what is used in making the steel, the ore comes from northern Mn mines and is shipped in rail car’s to Duluth then loaded in to ships to the lower lakes and to the mills in winter the ore is stocked piled at the mills for used in winter and stocked piled in duluth for spring shipping season


50 posted on 04/25/2014 12:53:56 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: driftless2

nothing like a great day about 75 or 80 and the wind start blowing off the lake and it 45 and foggy


51 posted on 04/25/2014 12:58:45 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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52 posted on 04/25/2014 1:37:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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53 posted on 04/25/2014 2:02:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The PASSING LANE is for PASSING, not DAWDLING)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
As Algore has pointed our many times, extreme cold weather is caused by global warming. As proof of his claims we can just look at the pictures posted above of the lake. The extreme ice was on the southern American side of the lake not on the northern Canadian side which logically should have been colder creating more ice.

As we all know that Canada is a far greener country than the US, we can clearly then extrapolate that the extreme ice is because global warming is the fault of the US.

(That's good, Im chuckling as I write this. Maybe I could get a job with a liberal think tank.)

54 posted on 04/25/2014 2:06:24 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Obama: Evincing a Design since 2009)
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To: markman46

My Just-In-Time comment referred to Pointy-Headed Nerd guy convincing upper management to wait AS LONG AS POSSIBLE before taking in those shipments, that way you’re not burning money that you could be earning 0.07% per year on (at least at my bank, and no, I don’t mean 7%).

In other words if Superior is expected to freeze over on December 4th, then have the final shipment come in December 3rd, so that money could be put to good use somewhere else (LOL). Too bad, the lake froze November 25th instead - now HUGE losses.


55 posted on 04/25/2014 3:18:04 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Want to know if global warming is real?

Watch where the insiders put their money. No, not when they get in on a government scam. Are they buying land in northern states to grow southern crops? Heavily invested in air conditioning manufacturers? Is Al Gore planting orange groves in Tennessee?


56 posted on 04/25/2014 3:25:05 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: MUDDOG
Hillary and the Wardrobe.

Liberal-land, where it's never Christmas.

57 posted on 04/26/2014 7:05:56 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Democrat_media

I’ve also notice how the global-warming argument has been reduced to: “There are people so dumb they don’t believe in global warming”


58 posted on 04/26/2014 7:07:24 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: JudyinCanada

We used to have a cabin in Lake City, Mi. I love it there.


59 posted on 04/29/2014 2:32:13 AM PDT by Gosh I love this neighborhood
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To: Gosh I love this neighborhood

Nice - looks like a quaint little spot. I am looking forward to it!


60 posted on 04/29/2014 4:14:46 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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