Maybe the last barge out there? Today at about two o'clock, a small construction barge with a small pilot house crept through the ice, slowly passing along the shoreline from Timber Isl to Mark Isl, making a lot of ice smashing noise as it chewed through the ice. Traveling at 5-mph out front Timber Isl it had to slow down to 2.5-mph out front Mark Isl probably due to thicker ice.
Was maybe Island Service out working somewhere till the ice forced it to escape back home while the ice still thin enough to go. Crunch, crack, crunch, crack, crunch ...... no doubt the driver must have a cell phone in case something goes wrong ..... like it gets stuck or breaks the prop or something, unexpected.
....... helloooooo ........ hey, guess what ....... barge is stuck? .....
..... what do I do? ......
