Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls
A fish house has partially sunk through the ice on White Sand Lake in Baxter Thursday. Efforts to raise the structure will continue this week. Ice conditions remain spotty on area lakes.
Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls A fish house has partially sunk through the ice on White Sand Lake in Baxter Thursday. Efforts to raise the structure will continue this week. Ice conditions remain spotty on area lakes.
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Early in the season, I remember a lot of comments by sportsmen telling us ignorant folk that THEY knew when the ice was safe and that the people giving ice warnings didn't know what they were talking about.
With the rash of articles of people falling through the ice, being stranded when the ice cracks and equipment sinking, where are those people now?
Why is there anyone who is still out there taking a chance when we've had 40 degree weather and multiple accidents? Are the people issuing warnings that the ice is thin and unpredictable still idiots?
Time to put the Pontoon Floaty Fishouses out
Take the old Pontoon, cut a hole or holes in the floor, put the Cabin Canvas Covering on it, and viola, an every 50 years or so Ice Fishing Survival Palace...
Okey,
Cause apparently crappies are more important than safety to some!
lots of ice out there
but just like any metal object, if you leave a house in one spot on a warm day, it begins to sink into the ice. Leave it for a week and its going to go for a swim, even on the 12 inches of ice that is on White Sand, so yes OkeyDokey, you are once again uneducated
IQ test
every one of these junior rocket scientists MUST take a IQ test before leaving home! the risk to the rescurers is STUPID!i went by the big lake yesterday-many houses next to open water?
So did that 48 year old guy
So did that 48 year old guy who just got released from the hospital after he fell through the ice stand out there for a week and "sink"? Is that what you are claiming? How about the guy whose ATV just went through? Did he park and sit on the thing for a week?
Who is uneducated? It's basic physics....water freezes at 32 degrees F. Weather that is above 32 degrees F causes ice to melt. Refrigeration from below slows the process, but doesn't stop it. That's why lakes open up in the Spring. Warm weather = melting. We had several days of warm weather and there was questionable ice before the warm up. Would this improve the situation or worsen it, do you think?
And, FWIW, my father used to leave his fishhouse on the lake all winter and it didn't sink. Why? Because he put it out after there was sufficient ice and he pulled it off before it was warm enough to melt. Sufficient ice = safe. That's called common sense.
wow
4 or 5 people out of 20,000 take a swim under the ice an all the people that support the OWS goons, that vandalized hunerds of thousands of dollars worth of our stuff want the swimmers to pay. go figger.
not true, jomammy
Why do you say such things when no one from ows has even stated that on here? Are you just trying to sound provocative?
Ignorance of ice safety abounds
It is not uncommon to have safe ice with open water not terribly far away. Nor is it out of the question to have safe ice over which a fish house was erected turn weak underneath it--and NOT solely due to warm weather. The ice right underneath the house can go bad when ice right next to it is still just fine.
Now we'll see if someone can explain how this happens...:-)
rino
Gee dont bring that up. There are people on here that will want everybody to call there congressmen because somebody leaves
there heat on in fishouse.
I see another one
went through the ice on Gull. So, who pays to have these houses brought back to shore? I don't go on the ice, so I am just asking.
The owner of the house is responsible for removal of it . . .whe
The owner of the house is responsible for removal of it . . .whether the house is on the ice, or IN the water. It's the same expectation if a vehicle goes through the ice, where the owner must pay for the costs of extracting it. (thugh some auto insurance plans will pay for a vehicle's recovery).
Of course, this is assuming we know whose shelter it was. If you can't see a name or driver's license numbe ron it, it's harder to go after its owner.
My question is how did that house get in the open water? Did the wind push it in? Did some prankster hook up a house and push it in? Did someone fall through while hauling it out? Very puzzling.