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Mackinac Island ferries delayed because of Great Lake's ice cover
Mlive.com ^ | April 14, 2014 | Jonathan Van Zytveld

Posted on 04/14/2014 10:11:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek

STRAITS OF MACKINAC, MI - At least one ferry service is predicting delayed trips to Mackinac Island due to ice that still covers a portion of the Great Lakes.


Shepler's Mackinac Island Ferry has announced it will be starting its 2014 season later than anticipated after temporarily relocating its ferry starts to St. Ignace, rather than Mackinaw City, as a result of the ice blockages which remain in the Straits of Mackinac.


"The straits have completely frozen over, except for a shipping channel," said Misty Martinchek, Shepler's group sales manager, who said all local ferries have been affected by the ice.


"We're all in the same boat, literally," she said.


Martinchek said the ice has been thawing during the warm days and freezing again at night, and that nobody at Shepler's can remember a ferry season ever being delayed due to ice.


"It has been a pretty tough spring for all of us," she said.


According to Martinchek, the U.S. Coast Guard will attempt to cut the ice surrounding Mackinac Island on Friday.


Despite having nine ice-breakers working each day to alleviate the ice, the U.S. Coast Guard ice-breaking crews remain behind schedule due to the lingering ice, which includes chunks larger than eight feet, which slowed times to ship products near Sault Ste. Marie.


Ice-breaking is expected to continue well into May until ice chunks are no longer a threat to ships, according to Mark Gill, director of vessel traffic service for the Coast Guard in Sault St. Marie.


Shepler ferry operations will begin out of St. Ignace as soon as the ice conditions permit. Daily updates on the conditions and the Shepler ferry schedule will be posted on the Shepler Ferry website and Facebook page beginning on April 21.


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: climate; ferry; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; iceage; maritime; michigan
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I think its time to put all the global warmers out there with tiny little ice picks and make them clear a path.
1 posted on 04/14/2014 10:11:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
Somebody call John Engler and tell him that he's been cleared to drive his Oldsmobile to Mackinaw island.

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2 posted on 04/14/2014 10:13:20 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

How many people people still believe in AGW?


3 posted on 04/14/2014 10:18:31 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: cripplecreek

Warmal Colding!


4 posted on 04/14/2014 10:22:21 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: backwoods-engineer

The Polar Bear Strikes Back.


5 posted on 04/14/2014 10:23:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
They are getting snow in Chicago later on today.

It's April 14th!

6 posted on 04/14/2014 10:27:23 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: cripplecreek

The fudge! Wont somebody think of the fudge!?!


7 posted on 04/14/2014 10:28:42 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: cripplecreek

Saugatuck article?

Oh, FERRY....not fairy.

Never mind...


8 posted on 04/14/2014 10:28:47 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: VanDeKoik

When it gets cold like this the fudge won’t budge.


9 posted on 04/14/2014 10:29:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SamAdams76

It was 65 degrees when I got up this morning and its down to 50 now. Supposed to get down into the 20s overnight.


10 posted on 04/14/2014 10:30:51 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

I’m always confused between Mackinac and Mackinaw. As I understand it, Mackinac is the island north of the town of Mackinaw. However, when I visited in-laws in Petoskey, they kept pronouncing the island “Mackinaw”.


11 posted on 04/14/2014 10:31:36 AM PDT by Marko413
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I don’t think anyone really makes a distinction unless they’re going to one specific place.


12 posted on 04/14/2014 10:35:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

hovercraft!!


13 posted on 04/14/2014 10:37:04 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: cripplecreek; All

Listen, who are you gonna believe — Al Gore or your lying eyes...


14 posted on 04/14/2014 10:37:56 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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I’m always confused between Mackinac and Mackinaw.

It is one of those things that makes Michiganderians smile with disdain, especially when someone pronounces it with a hard C.

15 posted on 04/14/2014 10:39:03 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: GeronL

why is their snow in Austin??


16 posted on 04/14/2014 10:41:15 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Slyfox

Just be glad we don’t call it Fort Michilimackinac.


17 posted on 04/14/2014 10:42:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Wow, someone I know works on the Lakes, wonder where he is right now?


18 posted on 04/14/2014 10:44:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GeronL

Too bad they retired the original Mackinaw (WAGB-83)Now THAT was an icebreaker. I’m betting they could use her this spring.


19 posted on 04/14/2014 10:50:14 AM PDT by technically right
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To: VanDeKoik

Believe me, we Michiganders and Michigeese are indeed thinking about the FUDGE!


20 posted on 04/14/2014 10:53:07 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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