Stretches of a couple miles with no open water, then some faster water areas still open. Depends on how long the temps last below zero, then ice dams start forming, and the still-moving water underneath the ice below keeps freezing and pushing up. Then all hell breaks loose downriver when the dams break, and ice slabs two feet thick and forty feet across move over land.
It's a fine time of the year here in Montana, no tourists to be polite to, no traffic, one can drive for hours on state highways and not see another car. I have new neighbors on both sides,..Mrs. Dunlop's house had finally been occupied by a retired couple from SLC, they plied me with gin and tonic last night, and on the other side a naturopath practicing locally with two elementary age kids are going to move in. We won't hold the naturopath stuff against them.....
The neighborhood is shaping up, albeit buried under snow for the next 4 months. I'll see my lawn again in May.
Sounds like a good time for one of your fishing trips to the Gulf of Mexico!
ReplyDeleteDespite the minus 10 temperatures, there's something beautifully intriguing about winter - especially in Montana.
ReplyDeleteIt's beginning to look like winter here, as well. Finally getting some cold and snow.
ReplyDeleteI use to love being out in such weather! Enjoyed if vicariously through you.
ReplyDeleteWe saw a car with a Newfoundland/Labrador license plate yesterday. I guess to them Halifax is the deep south.
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