KGD,
Talked to a friend of mine tonight. He's a member of a boat club in the Downriver area. (Wyandotte. US side ,upriver from Amherstburg) He said that there were boats on the water today dodging the ice flows.
If no one minds, I'm going to ramble about my home town since KGD was nice enough to post pics.
Myal,
We haven't seen that much ice in quite a while. This winter has been exceptionally cold. We've come close to record snowfall and have had unusually long stretches of brutal cold this winter. We're expecting another 1" to 3" of snow tomorrow and there's no sign of a warming trend in the near future.
For anyone interested, the building on the far right (looks like its giving Canada the finger) is the Renaissance Center. Now the General Motors headquarters. To the left of that (brightly lit) is the Omni International Hotel. Just to the right of that building (with the spire, left of the hovering red dot) is the CN, or City National building, a banking center in Detroit. In the foreground of that is the River Front towers. The small gray patch to the right of them is Joe Lewis Arena. Home of the Detroit Red Wings.
I grew up in the neighborhood of that bridge. I could see it from my house. Every year Detroit, MI and Windsor Ontario have a celebration called the Freedom Festival. For a long time they had the largest fireworks display in North America. Three barges, anchored off Hart Plaza (between the Ren Cen/GM HQ and the Riverfront towers) loaded to the gills with fireworks. I used to watch them from the second floor porch/balcony of our two family house.
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At one point, it was rumored that you could set the Detroit River/Lake Erie on fire due to the contaminants in the water. Today, Lake St Clair (north of the Detroit River) is one of the nations premiere Musky/Pike fisheries. Loaded with Smallmouth as well. The Detroit River has become a hot spot for Walleye. The mouth of Lake Erie is a Perch haven.
One more thing kgd. As a kid my parents used to take me to the park that you took the pics from. Riverside Park IIRC? Some great memories of that place. Being on your side of the river and looking across at home just stired the soul. Detroit doesn't look nearly as bad from your viewpoint.
Chris
