Every year for the last 10 years it takes a bit longer till the ice finally breaks.
When it does it is spectacular.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4JE0ruiOA&feature=youtu.be"]Ice breakup Manitoba May 2nd 2013 - YouTube[/ame]
This is just the Assiniboine River at Portage before it joins the Red River at "The Forks" in Winnipeg.
In Portage we control how much water we divert through our floodway channels directly into Lake Manitoba. From there it goes into the Nelson River and out into the Hudson Bay. My in-laws live in Churchill MB and they told me, that the international enviro-Paparazzi have as usual booked out every flee-bag hotel room at triple rates to film "drowning" polar bears, because the Nelson River Hydro System will soon open their spillway gates in order to keep the water level at Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba within bounds.
Lockport was completed in 1910 and the rest of the system in 1960 and nobody was worried about "drowning" polar bears in Churchill.
That only started after Al Gore`s brilliant Global Warming insights.
It`s a big business in Churchill and every year the Spillway gates open they rip off a bunch of enviro-dummies for all it`s worth.
Anyway, it`s awesome what a difference 1 day can make.
I was watching how the ice chunks made kindling out of trees...
In the Summer we find that stuff at the lake shore and use it for fish fries and Wienie roasts.
Thought for a while that spring arrived on Sunday when the Buffalo were basking in the sun @ ~ +1 C, but it did not last.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMpe5joln-A&list=UUvj7dbOY14kt_MFIR1Y1iwA&index=2"]Manitoba Spring 2013 - YouTube[/ame]
On Monday it went down to -12 C again and 25 cm more snow just 50 klicks north of where I live.
The windmill farm on top of the plateau is a lot noisier than what the video audio registered. It`s a deserted area, but I can understand why people who live near these wind turbines get so pissed off.
We don`t even need these, because we got way more hydro just from the Nelson River system than we could possibly use and export with the existing HV lines that run south across the Canada\US border.
But hey, why not collect Carbon credit browny points from the international greenies ?
I just missed one of these 4 mile long oil tanker trains which head south into the US right after Winnipeg in that video...but caught the tail end of another one of Warren Buffet`s money trains that keep rolling from Canada to Texas as long as team Obama blocks the Keystone pipeline(..while the greenies cheer, but only they know why)...these trains just keep on rolling
When it does it is spectacular.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4JE0ruiOA&feature=youtu.be"]Ice breakup Manitoba May 2nd 2013 - YouTube[/ame]
This is just the Assiniboine River at Portage before it joins the Red River at "The Forks" in Winnipeg.
In Portage we control how much water we divert through our floodway channels directly into Lake Manitoba. From there it goes into the Nelson River and out into the Hudson Bay. My in-laws live in Churchill MB and they told me, that the international enviro-Paparazzi have as usual booked out every flee-bag hotel room at triple rates to film "drowning" polar bears, because the Nelson River Hydro System will soon open their spillway gates in order to keep the water level at Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba within bounds.
Lockport was completed in 1910 and the rest of the system in 1960 and nobody was worried about "drowning" polar bears in Churchill.
That only started after Al Gore`s brilliant Global Warming insights.
It`s a big business in Churchill and every year the Spillway gates open they rip off a bunch of enviro-dummies for all it`s worth.
Anyway, it`s awesome what a difference 1 day can make.
I was watching how the ice chunks made kindling out of trees...
In the Summer we find that stuff at the lake shore and use it for fish fries and Wienie roasts.
Thought for a while that spring arrived on Sunday when the Buffalo were basking in the sun @ ~ +1 C, but it did not last.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMpe5joln-A&list=UUvj7dbOY14kt_MFIR1Y1iwA&index=2"]Manitoba Spring 2013 - YouTube[/ame]
On Monday it went down to -12 C again and 25 cm more snow just 50 klicks north of where I live.
The windmill farm on top of the plateau is a lot noisier than what the video audio registered. It`s a deserted area, but I can understand why people who live near these wind turbines get so pissed off.
We don`t even need these, because we got way more hydro just from the Nelson River system than we could possibly use and export with the existing HV lines that run south across the Canada\US border.
But hey, why not collect Carbon credit browny points from the international greenies ?
I just missed one of these 4 mile long oil tanker trains which head south into the US right after Winnipeg in that video...but caught the tail end of another one of Warren Buffet`s money trains that keep rolling from Canada to Texas as long as team Obama blocks the Keystone pipeline(..while the greenies cheer, but only they know why)...these trains just keep on rolling
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