Spring Breakup? Nah! Early Winter Breakup.
Usually this river ... Lloyd's on Route 480 ... is covered with ice at this time of year. But we had a rainstorm on the west coast of the province last weekend ... a lot of local damage ... lost a lot of snow! Maybe you saw it: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/mudslides-wa...
Guess they got the rain out here, too, because the river is opened up, and the ice which was covering it is all rafted up on the sides.
Serious stuff! But, of course, the Chicken Little alarmists will no doubt start banging the global warming drum soon. But, you know, this is nothing new. I've seen this river here so flooded ... water so high and the ice pans jammed up so tight to the bridge on the upstream side that it would have been downright dangerous to stand where stood today when I took this shot.
One year ... probably thirty five years or so ago ... a small stream which feeds Victoria River was so high I could launch my aluminum fishing boat in it right from the side of the road!
So, nothing new. Nothing to see. Move along. :-)
Spring Breakup? Nah! Early Winter Breakup.
Usually this river ... Lloyd's on Route 480 ... is covered with ice at this time of year. But we had a rainstorm on the west coast of the province last weekend ... a lot of local damage ... lost a lot of snow! Maybe you saw it: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/mudslides-wa...
Guess they got the rain out here, too, because the river is opened up, and the ice which was covering it is all rafted up on the sides.
Serious stuff! But, of course, the Chicken Little alarmists will no doubt start banging the global warming drum soon. But, you know, this is nothing new. I've seen this river here so flooded ... water so high and the ice pans jammed up so tight to the bridge on the upstream side that it would have been downright dangerous to stand where stood today when I took this shot.
One year ... probably thirty five years or so ago ... a small stream which feeds Victoria River was so high I could launch my aluminum fishing boat in it right from the side of the road!
So, nothing new. Nothing to see. Move along. :-)