[AllenG (OP)]

This is in Georgia.
The last time the pond froze was when I was a small child.
I wonder where I can buy some ice skates around here.

[AllenG (OP)]

^^^
A short video of me sliding around.

Anyone have a spare set of skates?

[RD]

Careful now ...

2 Men Drown in Icy Lake Trying to Save Dog

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/21/national/main6006781.shtml

[AllenG (OP)]

The twin playing Jesus


Me doing the same




The inevitable

[Bass]

What part of Georgia (I spent way too many years in Rabun County).

[AllenG (OP)]

The Republic of Georgia, Comrade?

But seriously, maybe lakes freeze differently in Georgia, but that ice doesn't look thick enough to me.  In New England, it pretty much becomes opaque.  What you're standing on looks as thin as paper, honest, like the frozen crust on a puddle.  Someone is shown falling on it without it cracking, so that sorta proofs it.  But it still looks freaky.

Old timers (perhaps a couple/few hundred years ago) used lakes in winter as their trash dump.  They'd haul their trash to the center of the ice.  When it thawed in the spring, the trash would end up on the bottom in the middle of the lake.  How else to get it all there, in a rowboat?

The Republic of Georgia, Comrade?

But seriously, maybe lakes freeze differently in Georgia, but that ice doesn't look thick enough to me.  In New England, it pretty much becomes opaque.  What you're standing on looks as thin as paper, honest, like the frozen crust on a puddle.  Someone is shown falling on it without it cracking, so that sorta proofs it.  But it still looks freaky.

Old timers (perhaps a couple/few hundred years ago) used lakes in winter as their trash dump.  They'd haul their trash to the center of the ice.  When it thawed in the spring, the trash would end up on the bottom in the middle of the lake.  How else to get it all there, in a rowboat?

It's about 3-4 inches thick and the end of the pond where we were walking is around knee deep at best.


Those bubbles are ~2 inches across.
You can see how they are stacked how the ice has increased in thickness the past few days.
The bubbles are methane by the way; you can press a stick or paddle into the bottom and it just bubbles up (when the lake is not frozen that is). 

[JimBob]

Not quite a methane hydrate but it is getting there.

[Make it Lady]

I have the same methane problem!

[RD]

... your "ice" could burn!!!   [:0] [:0]

[JimBob]

I have the same methane problem!

And they are called F_ _ T S.  right?

[JimBob]

Oh - and the wind chill here right now is about 0 F (-18C)

[AllenG (OP)]

We had snow flurries today.
The pond went from being a piece of Waterford crystal to frosted in about 3 mins.

[AllenG (OP)]

What part of Georgia (I spent way too many years in Rabun County).

Near Monroe, about 30 miles west of Athens.

[RD]

BBC News channel
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Witnesses saw two men go into the [ice covered] lake to rescue a dog on Monday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/8426088.stm

Like the example above the dog survives, but the dog owner and the person attempts to rescue the dog owner don't.

[RD]

The four legged don't always make it though, e.g. this fox-icle  ...

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This hungry fox ended up a victim of the sub-zero temperatures when it chased a duck across an ice-covered lake - and froze to death. The scene was captured by photographer Tim Woodcock, at Ashlett Mill Pond, near Southampton, Hants

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6965982/Pictures-of-the-day-11-January-2010.html

[AllenG (OP)]

That would be a five inch thick slab I cut out of the pond with a chainsaw.

[yor_on]

Modern art?

Get a pedestal for it.

[AllenG (OP)]

I'm keeping it in the freezer.

[yor_on]

Yeah, sweet photo

Maybe the start of a great collection too?

[AllenG (OP)]

Yeah, sweet photo

Maybe the start of a great collection too?

The crowing piece in a great collection.
I have water samples from all over the world.
The Atlantic, the Pacific, the Mississippi River, the Amazon, glacial melt water from Canada, the Trevi Fountain, water from the Roman baths in Bath, England. 18 samples so far.