Back in the early part of 20th century, the Chesapeake Bay would freeze
(perhaps almost) completely over. The area between Norfolk and Hampton -
about 4 miles wide - and people would build shacks to sell sandwichs and
coffee to people walking across.
Hasn't done that in a while although 1944/45 was a record cold year. The
Battle of the Bulge gave the Germans a advantage for a while - the weather
kept our air cover from supporting the ground pounders.
Here in Va we still get the ocassional ice storm - last was 95 or 96 IIRC -
my Mom & Mother in Law lived with us then and we had to find a place with
heat for them. Coated everything with a beautiful coat of ice and then
destroyed all the power lines and large % of trees - terrible destruction.
Our power was out for 7 days starting on Christmas Eve that year.
Fun, fun, fun.
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig McCluskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Gullible
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:06:03 -0500 "LT Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shame you guys don't have the American Coast Guard to assist with these
situations. :-)
In the winter of '80 (I think it was, might have been '79 or '78) we
rescued the SAME GUY THREE TIMES by helicopter because he tried to walk
from Cape Cod to Nantucket over the frozen water. (You non US- or non
right-coast guys consult a map to get the full impact -- you can't fix
stupid.)
You're right; how he could expect the 10 miles or so of Nantucket Sound
between the sand bars to freeze solid enough to walk on is pretty amazing.
Craig
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