Posted on 01/26/2014 6:37:29 AM PST by SMGFan
Extreme cold temperatures in New York City are taking their toll on transportation. Earlier this week, snow cancelled flights and slowed down the subway network. Now some ferry service is being suspended — because the East River is freezing over.
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From Buffett’s Manana: “Yeah, they’re freezin’ up in Buffalo stuck in their cars And I’m lyin’ here ‘neath the sun and the stars.”
That song should be required playing at the half during the super bowl.
Hell’s Kitchen freezes over. /S
The Hudson freezes in spots every few years or so, it’s nothing new. I was crossing it a few weeks ago and it was “slushy”.
As the ferry passes over the slush it’s quite an eerie sound.
I remember a few years back the river was frozen solid, they had boats passing up & down the river trying to keep the shipping & ferry lanes open. Once or twice ferry service had to be suspended.
My son lives and works in Manhattan. I’ve tried over and over again to get him to leave that godforsaken city. He refuses. He says Democrat women there are too easy and too stupid - like a bear on the banks of a Washington State river, scooping up salmon on the run.
Yes, I remember that. A good hunk of the Long Island Sound did, too....Little Neck Bay, Manhasset Bay...it was a cold, cold winter that year.
Regards,
Large rivers usually don’t completely freeze over. There may be ice on the surface, but underneath the river still flows. The Mississippi is like that. It’s beautiful to look at on a sunny day, but every few seconds, you hear the ice crack-pop-snap from the energy beneath. I would be afraid to walk across a large river covered over with ice. It’s not what it seems.
Impossible. Quit spreading these evil rumors you flat earth global warming denier!
Move the contents of the UN building out onto the ice and tow it out into the ocean.
My great grandfather did some bootlegging back in the day. During the summer booze crossed the Detroit river in boats and during the winter they drove.
If I keep reading these posts I’m afraid I will learn there are no rivers.
Next you’ll say cry me a river doesn’t mean a real river.
Hippie chicks are easy!
Followed by a 20 second whine by Al Gore about the horrors of global warming...
My grandmother claimed to have walked across the East River one winter. Not sure of the year. Maybe 1888? She would have been about 10 years old.
It all depends on how much snow, how fast the snow melts and if the water backs up in Winnipeg. I was there in ‘97 and I think they had a record amount of snow and then it got really warm and melted very fast. I was relatively young and it seemed like a big adventure at the time.
Up until aome time around the 1950's to 1960's most of the Hudson river between New York City and Albany would freeze solid every winter.
Once frozen they would put cars and trucks on the ice.
Some cars served as taxis to take people from one side of the river to the other, trucks delivered goods and hauled ice blocks cut from the river. They even held auto races on the ice.
Yes, it did. That was the coldest winter of my life. Trying to get a bus on 2nd Avenue in 2 degree weather was unpleasant. I think Newsweek or Time had a cover: “The Big Freeze.”
Sputen Duyvil! My favorite New York name for a town. A legacy of the great Dutch history of NY.
I was 13 that winter and for the life of me can’t remember it? I do remember the summer of 77. The Yankees, Son of Sam, the Blackout.
Sputen Duyvil is not a town, it’s the name for the confluence of the Harlem and Hudson rivers.
It’s actually true.
Before the Brooklyn Bridge was constructed, it was common for people to walk across when the river froze over seeing that the boats couldn’t ferry people over.
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