Posted on 04/25/2014 2:08:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Spring seems to be taking forever to arrive, but we are not really seeing the worst of the late spring.
The Great Lakes, and Lake Superior is holding on to their ice. As a result the freighters that normally travel the Great Lakes are having their fair share of problems. This has been a very long winter season, beginning with the Great Lakes freezing on December 6th, not allowing Northwest Indiana steel mills to stockpile materials. Glen Nekvasil, vice president for Lake Carriers' Association explained that lake freighters are struggling to make the voyage across Lake Superior despite the thick shelf ice and windrows of up to 14-feet-tall. Those delays caused Gary Works to run at reduced capacity. "This is the worst winter since 1993 or 1994," Nekvasil said. "The last time ice breakers were out this late in the season convoying vessles was 1996. It's been a very brutal winter."
Closer to home, Essar Steel is receiving freighter shipments of coal from the south, however iron ore from Duluth/Superior are being delayed. Essar Steel is receiving ore via rail.
(Excerpt) Read more at wawa-news.com ...
I had the same experience swimming in the upper Columbia River one summer. We walked barefoot down the beach burning our feet on the black sands and jumped into the river only to meet with 40 degree water. We stood on the shoreline jumping back and forth from water to beach trying to decide to try and run back up the beach or suffer the water. We took the beach run back for our shoes.
Gee, didn’t Al Gore tell us that by now there would be palm trees growing in northern Minnesota and snow would be seen only in photos?
You deniers! sheesh....(lol)
They said it would be 63 (17c) today, it's 42 (6c).
I noticed that, too - this reporter obviously never got any ‘red marks’ on her writing assignments back in school.
Brrrrr. Where are you? We are going to be in Lake City, Michigan.
Don't plan on swimming in the lake. :)
the Iron Ore is what is used in making the steel, the ore comes from northern Mn mines and is shipped in rail car’s to Duluth then loaded in to ships to the lower lakes and to the mills in winter the ore is stocked piled at the mills for used in winter and stocked piled in duluth for spring shipping season
nothing like a great day about 75 or 80 and the wind start blowing off the lake and it 45 and foggy
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As we all know that Canada is a far greener country than the US, we can clearly then extrapolate that the extreme ice is because global warming is the fault of the US.
(That's good, Im chuckling as I write this. Maybe I could get a job with a liberal think tank.)
My Just-In-Time comment referred to Pointy-Headed Nerd guy convincing upper management to wait AS LONG AS POSSIBLE before taking in those shipments, that way you’re not burning money that you could be earning 0.07% per year on (at least at my bank, and no, I don’t mean 7%).
In other words if Superior is expected to freeze over on December 4th, then have the final shipment come in December 3rd, so that money could be put to good use somewhere else (LOL). Too bad, the lake froze November 25th instead - now HUGE losses.
Want to know if global warming is real?
Watch where the insiders put their money. No, not when they get in on a government scam. Are they buying land in northern states to grow southern crops? Heavily invested in air conditioning manufacturers? Is Al Gore planting orange groves in Tennessee?
Liberal-land, where it's never Christmas.
I’ve also notice how the global-warming argument has been reduced to: “There are people so dumb they don’t believe in global warming”
We used to have a cabin in Lake City, Mi. I love it there.
Nice - looks like a quaint little spot. I am looking forward to it!
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