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Old 01-31-2019, 05:53 AM
 
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What’s the lake shore like at -40
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Old 01-31-2019, 05:58 AM
 
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You can try anything you want I guess as they just showed a video of a man rollerblading in a speedo along the lake in this.
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Old 01-31-2019, 08:29 AM
 
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No!!!! Lake seldom freezes over and if it does have frozen parts would not be safe to drive on.
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Old 01-31-2019, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Chicago, Tri-Taylor
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What’s the lake shore like at -40
I dunno. Give it a shot and let us know what happens!
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Old 01-31-2019, 10:26 AM
 
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Pretty sure that during the deep freeze, planes coming into O'Hare are diverted to land on Lake Michigan. They have gates at Oak Street beach, Fullerton Beach and Rainbow beach.
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Old 01-31-2019, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Bloomington IN
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For many years my parents lived on one of the small inland lakes in Lake County. Every winter after a week or two of below freezing weather people would snow mobile on the lake. If it had been freezing for many weeks some people would drive their trucks out on the lake. That stopped when one man's car cracked the ice and went down. He drowned.

Personally I wouldn't suggest it. You need at least 8-12 inches of ice for a car or small truck. The waves underneath the ice do eat away at it. With warmer temperatures this weekend, the ice will start to melt and form cracks.
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Old 01-31-2019, 11:17 AM
 
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What’s the lake shore like at -40
The coldest temperature in Chicago in the past few days was -21 yesterday morning. It's currently -4. In the next four days it is predicted to reach 21, 40, 46, and 51. It has not been anywhere close to -40 this year. Even if it was, though, it would still be incredibly dangerous to drive onto Lake Michigan. It rarely if ever stays cold enough long enough for the lake to freeze THAT solidly very far out from shore.
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Old 01-31-2019, 11:18 AM
 
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its weird this guy asked the same question on reddit too
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Old 01-31-2019, 12:54 PM
 
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Here you go--try it and get a ticket: https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/m...e-michigan-ice
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Old 01-31-2019, 03:15 PM
 
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There's a limited amount of ice fishing down at the Monroe harbor, but that's about it. I can remember in the boy scouts that a foot of ice was needed for a car. One inch meant one person could go out on the ice.

I hope no one is foolish enough to try to drive on the ice. There was a Playboy story in the sixties about a Wisconsin high school football coach who goaded the team to drive out on the ice after they had impregnated his daughter, but that was fiction.
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