[cripplecreek]

Ice is not something that makes sense to truck from a central repository across the country.

That was my first thought as well.

[Spktyr]

Yeah... considering that there are commercial icemaker trucks and semitrailers that one can rent, and one *does* normally truck in water (which makes sense if the water supply in an area is compromised)... it makes more sense to crank out ice on a local basis.