Ice Chokes Connecticut River in Haddam, Causing "Emergency Condition"

Hartford Courant ^ | 01/18/2018 | Matthew Ormseth

[sodpoodle]

Ice dams and flooding pose a danger to Haddam residents, the town’s top elected official said, prompting her to declare that an “emergency condition” exists in the riverside town. First Selectwoman Lizz Milardo made the emergency declaration Thursday. The proclamation will be forwarded to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in hopes he will proclaim that the town is in a state of emergency so the town may get state and federal assistance for any damage. “The First Selectman has declared that an emergency condition exists throughout the said Town…It has now been found that local resources are unable to cope with the effects of said emergency,” according to a copy of the declaration on the town’s Facebook page.

[sodpoodle]

Maybe not as bad as Kent.

[Puppage]

That’s true.

[ladyjane]

Here is another story about the ice in the Connecticut River. Apparently the ice forms something called a keel and it is under the ice floating on top.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/giant_chunks_of_ice_seen_in_lo.html

This link also has a video of the ice flowing down the river with some music. All very interesting.

[bgill]

If only they had some globull warming.

[sodpoodle]

That is scary. Strange combination of high and low temps.

From the article you cited:

That is exactly what happened in 1936. A very cold winter was followed by a very warm thaw and a rainstorm. Ice dams on the Connecticut River started giving way in Vermont, and the force of the water and giant-sized ice chunks created a path of destruction knocking out bridges one after the other and killing about 200 people,

[reg45]

Connecticut Democrats will be screaming about global warming as the glaciers scrape their mansions into Long Island Sound.

[cgbg]

They won’t even notice—they will be too busy joining the “undocumented” folks protests. :-(

A thief is an “undocumented” property owner!

[Gay State Conservative]

What next? Snow in Houston?

[Libloather]

Send the bill to Algore.

[Gay State Conservative]

Connecticut Democrats will be screaming about global warming as the glaciers scrape their mansions into Long Island Sound.

Connecticut's obscenely wealthy Rats live in Greenwich,New Canaan and Darien...all of which are many miles west of the Connecticut River.

However,Yale University,I suppose,could be swept into Long Island Sound...which would be a damn shame.

[Deplorable American1776]

I wonder if the Connecticut River get barges up to Hartford anymore...(They used to barge gasoline to East Hartford and Wethersfield, but East Hartford's tank farms are now gone. Are Wethersfield tank farms gone?).

One year, I was boating in the Connecticut River. It was cold...(testing a boat for a customer).