Nearly 85 percent of Great Lakes covered by ice

with snow, rain, and ice...the weather people do not care about us...thank goodness for local coverage..or we would be in the dark...

That satellite image looks like something out of "The Day After"

I want this to be a nice spring and summer.

I was by the lake the other day and thought, I don't remember ever seeing so much of it frozen. Guess I was right.

Oh, lake Michigan in Chicago

GLEN ARBOR, MI -- Glen Arbor resident Eric LaPaugh is familiar with the spot along the Leelanau County shoreline where he ventured into an ice cave over the weekend.

If it was summer, the water would have been up to his knees. On Sunday, he was standing on ice and looking at stalactites on a sunny but bitterly cold day.

He took a 30-second video from inside the ice cave off Glen Arbor, proclaiming it the most beautiful place in America throughout all seasons as his dog, Kelty, looked in.

"It's pretty cool to be able to witness Mother Nature's beauty like that," LaPaugh told the Grand Rapids Press and MLive. "I mean, being inside of that ice cave was like, to me, being inside of a Sistine Chapel or some kind of beautiful Mother Nature cathedral with those ice stalactites."



http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/02/see_30_seconds_inside_an_ice_c.html

No, I didn't. But I would love to see that in person. Nature can be cruel and beautiful at the same time. That's extraordinary. Gorgeous. But I hate it happened because of the never ending, extreme winter.

Thanks for sharing!

And from the link, it appears to be a good thing for the ecosystem at the shoreline.

Lake Effect is a storm picking up water over the Great Lakes, then dumping it on shore. When the lakes are frozen this is halted.

Then it will be time to move

http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/compare_years/

I wonder how the hell people here & further north didn't freeze to death back then?
Sure, houses had fireplaces and some had more 'advanced' heating systems but DAMN.
It's freezing fucking COLD in my 60 year old house with insulation, relatively new windows AND a newer furnace.

half way down the state of Indiana. Wood heat is the best in my opinion. My wife says it's warm to the bone heat.