Word: refrozen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marys River and the locks of Sault Ste. Marie, clearing the way for downbound ore carriers and for empty ships upbound from the steel mills at Gary, Ind. Each winter the 290-ft. Mac makes "track" not only through the solid heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through brash, says Hall, "is like trying to punch yourself through a room full of marshmallows." The Mac copes differently with ice 2 ft. thick. The old cutter does not exactly knife through it. She just sort of squashes the stuff...
...veritable art, the correct choice of wax depends on two factors: one, the history of the snow (has it melted and refrozen?), and two, the water content of the snow...
...veritable art, the correct choice of wax depends on two factors: one, the history of the snow (has it melted and refrozen?), and two, the water content of the snow...