I've gone through the ice, but it was a (thin) layer of ice on top of 20"
or so of slush on top of a 4' layer of solid ice. Myself and a buddy were
doing some midnight snowmobiling across a very large lake, and we "found" a
place where the ice had cracked & the weight of the snow pushed down enough
to flood the snow on top of the ice. My buddy's snowmobile was quite bit
heavier than mine, and while we had been running parallel to each other; it
was like he ran into a giant, invisible pillow. When I slowed down to make
a U-turn, I went through too. We spent the majority of the rest of the
night trying to get the snowmobiles out of the slush. We got mine out, but
his was too heavy. We did manage to pull his up on top of an old wooden
ladder, and came back the next morning when we could see what we were
doing. However, in the process of trying to pull the sleds up out of the
slush, we'd slipped & fell numerous times. We were completely soaked, and
it was ~~ -15F. We had maybe an inch of ice all over each other. Quite an
experience, and I never want to do it again.
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 9:58 AM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> I found the kicking of the legs to help get your upper body a few inches
> onto the ice the most important part.
> I have been in freezing water before but never by accident and never
> through the ice. I used to go ice skating as a kid on farm ponds all the
> time.
> If the ice made cracking sounds when walking on it we would not go. Very
> scientific test.
>
> *From:* Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 20, 2019 10:52 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT interesting video
>
> There are a couple of key points there. In my experience, people who fall
> through the ice do not spread their arms to prevent falling all the way
> through. They end up under the ice, and then can't find the hole they fell
> through. Once you've gone under, you are close to being screwed. If you
> have the presence of mind to spread your arms in the first place, you might
> be able to make it.
>
> Also, the weather had to be relatively warm where this was done. It always
> seemed like the temps were below zero when this happened around where I
> lived. Smaller margin for error.
>
>
>
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>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 8:56 AM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.youtube.com/embed/VUsnmGXJ70E
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