Ice on the Hudson

The ice breaker came through this morning to try to keep the river open. About an hour later, you couldn’t tell. With the ice, the river is very high, so we may be headed for some flooding around here. The ice breaker is fun to watch — it’s not all that big, but it makes a hell of a wake and really churns up the river, breaking up the ice layer into pancake ice. But this morning it’s cold enough that the pancake just came right back together and refroze. Why do we care? Heating oil comes by barge. That’s why. We need it most when it’s hardest to get, like right now.

Had hits on the blog from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia this morning. No guess as to why. Odd, though.