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Godhumor

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3. I work in Great Lakes Freighting. This is common at the start of the season

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:14 PM

Apr 2015

Demands of customers do not always follow what nature will allow.

If you want to see the convoy by Whitefish Bay, you can observe the traffic at ais.boatnerd.com

That said, the start this year has been smoother than last year by a significant margin.

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Ships trapped in ice on eastern Lake Superior [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author trotsky Apr 2015 #1

The Great Lakes reached well into the 90% range of ice cover this winter. trotsky Apr 2015 #2

I work in Great Lakes Freighting. This is common at the start of the season Godhumor Apr 2015 #3

Why don't they have icebreakers like the Russians do? KamaAina Apr 2015 #5

The bottom photo in the OP shows the USCGC Mackinaw, a heavy icebreaker. Brother Buzz Apr 2015 #6

I've been working on my taxes. It seems that mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 #14

Coast Guard has heavy cutters on the lakes Godhumor Apr 2015 #7

Cost in excess of $1Billion One_Life_To_Give Apr 2015 #10

When do you anticipate your boat will be underway again? In_The_Wind Apr 2015 #9

The one waiting in the queue will be moving in the next few days Godhumor Apr 2015 #11

That is good news. In_The_Wind Apr 2015 #12

We hedged our bets by only having one vessel out currently Godhumor Apr 2015 #13

I guess this reverses Imhofe's snowball debacle,,,, benld74 Apr 2015 #4

More Sexy to fight terror than break ice. One_Life_To_Give Apr 2015 #8

More links mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 #15