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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 04:07 PM
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And for our WTF segment this evening...

Apparently 100-500 people are adrift on an 8-mile-long ice floe in Lake Erie! :wtf:

Why were they on the floe? Perhaps ice fishing... no one knows! Hope they are all OK though!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/07/Ohio.stuck.on.ice/index.html
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 04:25 PM
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1. Probably ice fishermen
My Dad has a place not far from there in Port Clinton and those people are really nuts about their fishing...:crazy:
Hopefully they are rescued but it sounds like there was warning this could happen...
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 04:27 PM
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2. I have good friends in Port Clinton!

Now the link says at least one person died :(

What a crazy story! It was over 50 degrees here in Columbus today -- I'm sure it was a bit cooler up there, but I still wouldn't have been out on the ice!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 04:42 PM
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6. huh.
Well my dad rents out his condo in the summer time (you can see Lake Erie from his place) so if you and Iza ever want to stay there...:hi:
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 04:27 PM
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3. Ice fishing isn't a sport as much as it is a cult
You can't get those hardcore guys off the ice, no matter what's going on.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 04:36 PM
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4. Ice fishing: the coolest outdoor sport on the planet
Edited on Sat Feb-07-09 04:41 PM by sasquatch
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 04:40 PM
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5. One dead, so far. Just on NPR.
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