Mother Nature At Her Worst

Yesterday morning as I was getting ready for work,

it started freezing rain;

so I decided to worked from home.
Glad I did because then

 it changed over to snow 

and we got 2 more inches of the white stuff.

Later in the afternoon,

Bob and I went to the grocery store 

and this is what we saw.

We had no idea the river had risen so much overnight.
{water is close to the pole}

Because of the frigid weather we have had,

the ice has come into our big river

sooner this year.

Usually we see major ice in February.
 {not this much though}
We have some ice in January
{last year we had no ice}

This is our dock in the background.
See at the end where the ice has raised it.

The ice is jamming up so much, 

that it has come up under our dock

and lifted the dock up precariously at the end. 

So much so that it will need to be replaced now.

The ice is raising the river and the water 

is almost at the top of the rest of our dock.

If this happens,

 more of our dock will need to be replaced.

The ice has almost reached the road

just south of our dock.

In the 16 years I have lived here,

I have never seen the ice this bad.

Folks I know have not seen it in over 30 years like this.

The U S Coast Guard ship pictured here

is trying to break the ice up, 

so it can move out of the river into the lake.

In some places the ice was higher than the road.

{not good at all}

We were watching the ship maneuver a bit...

going backwards and turning and trying to break it up.

We are all hoping he does it soon.

Lots of docks are being lost to the river.

Now we are currently under a flood warning.

Houses are being flooded.

We live in a community of 50 homes,

where we all enjoy our dock.

We each pay $50 per year for the upkeep of both the dock

and the cutting of the grass for our 3 acre park.

Looks like our fund this year will be going 

to repair our dock.

Up the river in the town where our store is,

the ice broke up the ferry dock

that runs between the U S and Canada.

Now we lost our Canadian friends

 who come over and shop. 

This is bad. Never imagined it could be like this.

This is MotherNature at her worse.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

We will be watching our river.

Hoping To Thaw Out Blessings To All!

Janice