Posted on 01/24/2025 10:48:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Coast Guard said there are no concerns for the safety or well-being of the vessel and crew members. The Manitoulin unloaded a shipment of wheat in Buffalo and now has no cargo. The crew is reported to be in good health and monitoring the situation with adequate fuel, provisions and electricity.
According to the Coast Guard, the icebreakers are working and they expected the ship to be freed Thursday night.
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Ice with all the climate change , NEVER ,LOL
Enjoy outdoor ice skating while you still can. Just a few years left, I hear.
In my youth of living in WNY lake Erie would completely freeze over every year.
In the winter of 1976/77 it froze over in mid December. Eventually leading to lots of snow accumulation on the ice. When the winds picked up to 75 mph in mid January it led to the Blizzard of 77. Three feet of snow and high winds. No school for a week.
Global Warming!
Things were nice and warm in BTR that winter.
Ice on Lake Erie in January? But what about global warming?
The winter you mentioned brings back memories of the weather in Fargo, ND. I remember we had about 30 days of very cold weather: Highs -10 below F and Lows -30 below. As I recall the governors of ND and MN closed all government operations except emergency services. It finally warmed up to +10 and everything got going again.
I worked on similar ships on the Great Lakes in January on Lake Erie. We too were locked in the ice for about a day and were “set free” by a US Coast Guard ice breaker.
Sometime around 1984-85 I played in a band. One of our stops was The Reef in Port Huron - right on the Huron River.
It was early spring and the ice flow off the lake had made the river impassableble for the ore boats. A US Cutter and. Russian cutter were both cruising the river to open things up.
On Saturday night, the Russian trawler parked on the river next to the restaurant, and some of the crew came ashore for dinner and R&R.
The Reef waitresses were pretty hot, and the inevitable happened. The bantan weight restaurant manager, whose golden gloves nickname was “Speedy” - made quick work of one drunken Russian while the rest of the sailors backed off. Speedy bought them all drinks and a good time was had by all.
I was witness to an international incident of small significance and it was great.
In between sets, I went up to get a beer and the sailor that tangled with Speedy started talking to me in very good english. He was amazed that this little guy subdued him and was in awe.
I miss those days, sometimes. I understand that Speedy passed in a boating accident. The Reef burned to the ground in 1986.
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