Yesterday the winds picked up and the snow started drifting. It continued overnight and still is  this morning.  Forecast is for it to start slowing down some as the day goes.

Looking out on the ice it doesn’t look good, but I’m going to clear the landing this morning  and we will go from there.  When you have the entire lake blowing snow our direction you end up with a lot of snow on the south end of the lake.  With the ice thicknesses we had going into this on Tuesday I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there is flooding under the snow in many spots. Hopefully the cold and winds have already started it freezing.  I won’t know for sure until we get out there and check things out.  With such little ice compared to the snow depth and strong winds it happens.  I’ve seen it many times over the 50 plus years I’ve been doing this.  And this season will be a tough one until we get enough ice to run on safely.

Merry Christmas!

Eddy