Norwegian Icebreaker Heads North Up The Mississippi River

[adkbuck]

As you may have heard the weather in the Mid-west have been extemely cold.

So cold in fact the the state of Minnesota has borrowed a Norwegian Icebraker to clear the Mississippi for barge traffic.

Here is a picture as the hard work begins.

Edited February 1, 2013 by adkbuck

[hunter49]

Lol, looks like it wiil take a while.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Yikes, where's his knickers?

[growalot]

lol

[PWGUNNY]

That's funny. you got me with the title. I thought I was going to see a picture of a really cool ship. At least that pic is of the stern and not the bow.

[Pygmy]

Oh YAH, Ole'....Dat's COLD ya know.....

[josephmrtn]

LOL

[F-150]

IS THIS THE GREEN ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT VERSION

[josephmrtn]

yeah the EPA dont want em using diesel fuled ones... LOL

[Pygmy]

ADK...Not to highjack your thread, but that picture reminds me of a story..

I vacationed several years back in the 60s and 70s on a lake In Ontario, just south of Algonguin Prov. park.

The lake had a population of people of Scandanavion descent, mostly Finns...They ALL had saunas on thier docks and used them year round..In the summer they would get all steamed up and run off the dock and jump in the lake..In the winter they would break ice so they could do the same thing, and after the ice got too thick to break, they'd just run out of the sauna and jump in a snowbank.

The owner of the cottage that I stayed in told me that soon after he bought property on the lake, he became friends with some of his Finnish neighbors, and hence was invited to come down and sit in the sauna with them, which was considered somewhat of an honor..He had never been in one, but he accepted the invite rather than risk offending his new friends..

He was a rough and tumble, somewhat salty resident Canadian..

His story went something like this..

" I got to the sauna, and the whole bunch of them crowded in there like ducks, men women and children, naked as jaybirds...

Some of the women were good lookers....

I was a young man then, and I found out that keeping my composure was pretty difficult with a bunch of them SNAPPIN things lookin' at me"...