No, I haven’t taken another fall! On our new walk in the park we get to enjoy views up and down the Connecticut River. The temperature dropped dramatically this week, and in two days the river began to freeze over. Here I am standing on the eastern shore looking upstream towards Hartford. At this stage the river is only partially frozen. In fact the next day this ice was broken up and lying on the edges of the river while the main channel was free.
Sometimes the Connecticut freezes over for long stretches and the Coast Guard has to bring in ice breaking boats to keep the shipping lane open. The cove near us, a backwater of the river, freezes over completely and allows ice fishing. As a sad aside, the carpenter who built our home in 1929 died in 1930 when he fell, unattended, through the ice of that cove when fishing.
Do any of my readers live near major rivers that freeze over in part or in whole? I would love to learn where else this picturesque phenomenon occurs.
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When I lived in Maine several rivers froze over completely. Weekends meant snowmobiling and barbecues on the river. Ice fishing, too, of course.
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I never went snowmobiling though I was often passed by them when cross country skiing years ago.
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I was never a fan either. Too fast for my comfort level.
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We used to get offered rides when we were skiing, their idea of humor.
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Of course.
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I’m more than happy for you to keep those temperatures to yourself!
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LOL
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I have never lived near a river that freezes. But when I first went to Leningrad in 1977, the sea bordering the city in The Gulf of Finland was frozen. That impressed me a great deal! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Wow. That would be amazing to see.
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I used to live on the Potomac River before moving to New York City, where I live a block from the Hudson River. I have to be near water for my spiritual well-being, whether it is frozen or not. Both of these rivers however, are too fast moving to freeze often, although I do remember the river over the Great Falls icing over in big snowstorms…or maybe it was just the rocks.
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I have almost always lived within walking distance to a river. For several years I lived on the river in a houseboat. Given the current in the Connecticut it is amazing to me to watch it ice over.
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I grew up in the Dakotas, and the ice froze over on the river so much that vehicles drove onto them. remember that sometimes we’d have to drill through a foot of ice to go ice fishing.
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I still am amazed that the fish keep on happily under the ice. I forgot about you and the Dakotas. I have been in Montana in the winter which I imagine is similar.
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In some Southern parts of New Zealand, some lakes freeze over – and then it’s put your skates on or get into curling (a sport with something like kettles).
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People actually do curling in New England. I had a friend who refereed the sport here. I didn’t know that parts of N.Z. froze.
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Hi Elizabeth, this is interesting for me as I’ve never seen a real frozen river. Nothing every freezes in this neck of the woods, it’s to hot during the day although it drops to below freezing at night. We generally only get a bit of frost.
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It doesn’t get cold enough in this part of Australia for anything to freeze Elizabeth.
Blessings,
Jennifer
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Thanks. I am pretty clueless about Australia’s climate.
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The very thought of rivers and lakes freezing amazes me 🙂 My husband’s uncle and family live near Toronto. They have a cottage by Kamaniskeg lake which is about 280 kms from their home. He sent me photos of the lake frozen. It looked amazing. He wrote the entire lake does not freeze.
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It is amazing that the top of lakes freeze but the fish swim happily under under the ice in the water.
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I live in Saskatchewan – everything freezes over. 🌬️
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Lots of ice on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie/Highland this week but not enough for the iceboats that can sometimes get underway just a bit further upstream where it’s no longer tidal.
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Thanks. Hadn’t thought of a lot of ice on the Hudson, but it makes sense.
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