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[joebanks]

I drove to the lake Monday. They are saying all five of the Great Lakes are completely frozen over for the first time in 20 years. Lake Erie is ice all the way across, in theory you could walk the 50 miles to Canada. If it had been a brighter day it would have been difficult to get any definition in the photos at all.





Downtown in the distance.



Ridges of ice; I wonder if ice forms these with the same dynamics as continental plate tectonics?



Picnic by the lake?

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[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

Picnic by the lake - at least the table and benches are clear and ready to go.

[sahlah.livejournal.com]

Brrr... I saw pictures from ice caves in Michigan that people are visiting for the first time in years. It's cold there.

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

Looks like someone's been there.

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

I saw that too, wouldn't want to walk into them though.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know the lakes could freeze all the way over!

I guess this is when stone age peoples could migrate southwards years ago :)

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

LOL! Migrating south sounds like a plan.

[rafqa.livejournal.com]

I just came by and stole one of these without even commenting.

That city-in-the-distance picture is especially wonderful. They're all beautiful but scary. I didn't know the lakes could freeze over either, especially not all of them. But I guess if the Arctic Ocean can freeze, this is a piece of cake.

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

Theft is the most sincere form of flattery - or something to that affect.

Looks a little like OZ but it ain't.

Erie freezes easiest because it's shallow. But that it froze all the way a across is unusual any more.

[rafqa.livejournal.com]

Yes, like Oz and the White Queen's castle from Narnia.

I have a link you might like-- I hope you don't mind my putting it here.

http://gizmodo.com/inside-an-amazing-village-designed-just-for-people-with-1526062373

It came via Truthdig, and if you follow the link to the fake bus stop, that's kind of interesting too.

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant! Thanks.