Looks like Narnia

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Residents estimated the ice was between one and three feet thick.

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Some homes were completely dark because of how thick the ice was, local NBC affiliate WGRZ reported. Residents estimated the ice was between one and three feet thick.

That is a *lot* of weight. A quarter to a half inch brings power lines and large tree limbs down.

Picturesque.

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That is a *lot* of weight.

That's what I was thinking!! I wonder if my house would be able to withstand something like that. Sure hope I never have to find out!

And across the lake in my neck of the woods:
https://blackburnnews.com/chat...on-erie-shore-drive/

Still wanna move?

Ugh, I hate ice. Hopefully everyone is OK and the weather warms up soon.

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Originally posted by LL:
Still wanna move?

Still going to move, maybe not lakeshore.

Here are some more:

Lots of Ice

Lakeshore might be OK if the house is set further back and there are some trees in between the structure and the lake. But that might not be possible in a more metropolitan area like the one you're looking at. I think it's a lot more built up. I remember that one house that you were considering that had the beautiful landscaping. I think my first comment was "do you have any idea what it looks like in the winter during a high wind situation?" Chicago is seeing significant damage to private and public lakefront properties.

Lake Michigan is still just below record levels for this time of the year, and projections are that lake levels will continue to rise this year. The sale of our Door County house closed a week ago and I have to say I'm so relieved not to be concerned about high water tables and lake levels. The sump pump in the crawl was going on every minute or so, even during the winter. That's something we had never experienced in the nearly thirty years since we built the house. Current projections are for continued rising lake levels for the foreseeable future.

Those pictures are so incredible - at first when they appeared on facebook, I thought they were fake. Until I watched the video. I don’t know how a house survives that. That ice is going to push apart and get into every crack.

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:


Looks like Narnia

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Residents estimated the ice was between one and three feet thick.

These photos and the ones you posted later represent a savage beauty - and great danger. I feel for those residents and all around the lake.

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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
And across the lake in my neck of the woods:
https://blackburnnews.com/chat...on-erie-shore-drive/

This tells the story - as much as can be known - about the how and why the victims are forced to proceed and what they have to fear apart from their present ice-bound status.

I wonder if anything similar has ever happened in living memory.

Hoping the dike holds and the disaster is mitigated when the great melt occurs.

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Originally posted by Amanda:

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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
And across the lake in my neck of the woods:
https://blackburnnews.com/chat...on-erie-shore-drive/

This tells the story - as much as can be known - about the how and why the victims are forced to proceed and what they have to fear apart from their present ice-bound status.

I wonder if anything similar has ever happened in living memory.

Hoping the dike holds and the disaster is mitigated when the great melt occurs.

This happens almost every winter here. I have a friend who lives on the Lake Erie shore and that’s what her back deck/house wall looks like most years.