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14 Km of this chitt.They got a floating hoe trying to break it up.Lots of homes ruined and some major industries are down.Couldn't get close to the hoe to get a pic.

From this morn.

Good pics, thanks 7stw.

I thought one of those pulp mills was going to pump hot water into the Fraser to break the jam up?

No problem thought some might like to see it..

I believe the guys at Can'tfor are starting the warm water pipeline in the a.m.

Couldn't get close to the hoe to get a pic.

better vantage point from Queensway for that!

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I went down Pulpmill Rd..Try by all means possible to STAY OFF Queensway at all times.For reasons of it being the scumbag sector plus the hood with the drive-by's next door.

Great photos Mike. Hope the warm water pipeline works! If the treehuggers hear that the mills are going to put warm water in the river thay will have a fit!

Good pics!! The river here never freezes up that solid!!!

Rob

Wouldn't want to use an axe to chip a ice fishing hole thats for sure...grin

I hope I'm wrong, but to me (knowing the volume of the river involved) pouring hot outflow from a single mill on to it - to try and melt that volume of ice, seems, to me, to be similar to a fisherman trying to make an icefishing hole - by peeing on the lake ice.

I think it's time they outfitted some dozer boats or tugs with ice blades up front and protection on the sides - and in the FUTURE - not allow the jam to form in the first place - in otherwords fight jams from day one - with boats.

Hindsight is always 20/20, but this is a disaster that (like the Kelowna fire) could have been quite easily fought - if officials hadn't dithered for weeks - while it grew in size.

It's time Prince George invested in some preventative equipment - heavy duty boats maintained for just such an occasion.

I guess thats the result of building on flood plains , should just move the businesses out of there and let the river run its course.

The object of the warm water pipeline,is to soften up the ice to make it easier for the hoe to break up.It take 86 years to melt that with the pipeline.Thats one massive ice jam.The picture's really don't give it justice.

That hoe looks like a tonka toy working on a ski hill , they need about a dozen of them.

Heard it made 300m up river since it took the plunge.

Ha!

That brings to mind the words of my esteemed Geography professor, who, upon completion of the hyrology part of the course - would ask us "If there's ONE thing you've learned from this course it is? "

To which we would all answer aloud - "NEVER build on a flood plain" to his approving smile.

The ice hoe.Picture robbed from the local newspaper.

Never knew such a thing existed.

Niether did I until about a month ago.

That be a Hoe

Now it is 30 km long and growing with the cold weather. They removed the hoe and are now thinking about letting mother nature do her thing. I would hate to live anywhere along the upper Fraser, Nechako or Stuart when spring comes. The Nechako resivour only has 3' before alcan lets the water really go. Lets hope for a slow cold spring.

That hoe was a overpriced pile of crap.What a useless SOB that thing was...