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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Ice Cube Tray Spikes - Another FPT Reader Has Unusual Encounter!
Here we have another set of photos sent via email from an FPT reader. The mystery of these continues. Some have argued global warming. Until our friend Yancy sends us the results of his algorithims on this we are not taking a stance.
Here we have another set of photos sent via email from an FPT reader. The mystery of these continues. Some have argued global warming. Until our friend Yancy sends us the results of his algorithims on this we are not taking a stance.
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http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm Sorry to spoil the fun.
DUE NORTH
by Harold L. Kirk, hlkgmk@velocity.net
Appeared in Harbor Creek Historical Society Newsletter,
At 8 a. m. on a cold Saturday morning in March of 1963, Gene Heuser left his
warm home on East Lake Road and headed due north. When he reached the shore
of Lake Erie, the only thing ahead of him was an icy barren wasteland as far
as the eye could see. His plan was to hike over the ice, about 32 miles, to
the Canadian lighthouse at Long Point, stay the night and then hike back to
Harborcreek. Little did he envision the many obstacles that lay ahead.
Using only a small compass to guide him, he soon found that heading due
north was seldom possible as he encountered pillars of ice five feet high
and snow drifts of over 10 feet. He told a reporter later, "I never
expected to see what I saw. It was not just a smooth surface."
As evening approached and he was still miles from land, he knew he would be
spending a long cold night on the ice! The moon shone brightly for about an
hour but later, clouds covered the sky leaving him in near total darkness.
Using a small flashlight allowed him to continue his northward trek. He
said, "The flashlight lit up these huge ice chunks with a fluorescent glow
into eerie forms and shapes like those of a barren planet. Sometimes I fell
on the jagged surface and just lay there on the ice. I knew I could not lie
down long or I would freeze." He also said that one of the most vivid
recollections of that long night was of the small pinholes in the ice
through which the water below was periodically forced under pressure to
spout up into the air and freeze. The frozen spurts looked to him like
telephone poles standing straight up all over the lake. He told the Erie
Morning News later, "I knew my planned route from Shade's Beach to Long
Point was about 32 miles but I figured I must have walked over 50 miles
because of the drifts and ice chunks I had to walk around."
Well past daybreak on Sunday morning, Gene reached the lighthouse where he
saw some shacks belonging to a team of Canadian scientists making a lake
study. They didn't believe that he had just strolled over from the nation
to the south until he showed them his identification. Canadian police
escorted him to the mainland at Port Rowan, Ontario. Gene quickly revised
his original plan of walking back to Harborcreek and instead called his
brother in Buffalo to pick him up. (With experience comes wisdom.)
While in Canada, Gene learned that a North East man, Walter Lick had walked
across frozen Lake Erie in 1912. (Walter was the subject of the previous
Tales & Treasures.) "I'm going to look him up if I can," Gene said. (I
wonder if he ever did! Does anyone know?) .
Gene graduated from Harbor Creek High School in 1949 and was a member of the
Presque Isle Yacht Club. He also served on the Great Lakes Commission for
nine years. Gene died in May of 1998. Walter Lick died in 1981.
Harold L. Kirk
http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~smorris/edl/icespikes/due_north.html
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