Slabs of ice as big as pickup trucks.
“Ice coverage on eastern Lake Superior has hamstrung ship traffic this week,” says the Duluth News Tribune. Eighteen vessels were waiting on Wednesday in Whitefish Bay to move through a soup of ice 8 feet thick in some places, with slabs of ice as big as pickup trucks.
“The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alder, from Duluth, and the Mackinaw — the largest U.S. icebreaker serving the Great Lakes — have been chipping away with assistance from several other, smaller icebreakers. Canada’s big icebreaker Pierre Radisson was set to join the fray later Wednesday.”
Look at this photo of freighters trapped in the vast expanse of ice!
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/3717073-ice-conditions-tie-shipping-traffic-eastern-lake-superior
Thanks to Jim McCulley for this link