Ice halts northbound ships
Port Huron Times Herald
Freighters heading north up the St. Clair River and into Lake Huron have been halted as the Coast Guard works to flush ice out of the area.
Lt. Dixon Whitley with the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Detroit said several ships are working today to break up the piles of slushy ice clogging the shipping channel.
“It’s a very abnormal situation,” he said. “It was kind of the perfect storm of the wind, the current … and just the stage of the ice that was pushed in there – very thick and water-logged ice.”
U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers Mackinaw and Biscayne Bay are working alongside Canadian ship Griffon to clear ice in southern Lake Huron, while the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Neah Bay is working in the north and middle channels near Harsens Island.
Whitley said all upbound traffic has been halted for 24 hours.
Whitley said the ships will likely continue efforts to clear the ice Tuesday.
“We’re going to continue until it’s gone, which hopefully is sooner rather than later,” he said.
4 comments:
Ran into JD, a deckhand on the ferry, at the DNR site on the mainland a little while ago. The ferry might run later, if the CG clears a path. However probably only for a short time, because there is still alot of ice to come down. Freighters are stuck up in the river, and every CG Cutter possible is working the area today.
Any updates?
Is there any way that we can ask Champion's to leave updates on the blog rather than having us call the ferry and get a busy signal or old messages?
Champion could also use the Comcast Cable for announcement on the public channel when the Ferry is down.
Any news would be a benefit, but this Blog Spot is a good idea.
Freighters up ice down...Yeah a perfect storm.
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