'Frozen' Niagara Falls drawing tourists to winter spectacle
Source: AP
Feb. 20, 2015 10:20 AM EST
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The winter's deep freeze has transformed Niagara Falls into an icy spectacle, encasing the trees around it into crystal shells and drawing tourists who are braving below-zero temperatures.
The Niagara River keeps flowing below the ice cover, so the falls aren't completely frozen over. But the massive ice buildup near the brink has become a tourist magnet for the second straight year after several relatively mild winters.
Visitors have been flocking to Niagara Falls State Park, next to the American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up the natural attraction. Days of subzero temperatures have created a thick coating of ice and snow on every surface near the falls, including railings, trees and boulders.
Things aren't expected to thaw out soon: Temperatures dipped to 7 below zero in Niagara Falls on Friday morning.
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It's almost as though the falls have been locked!
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when it was still comfortably warm up there. There's no way in hell I'd be up there at this time of year (where it's bad enough being in the single digits right now here in Philly). 
