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Old 01-31-2019, 05:29 PM
 
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I dunno. Give it a shot and let us know what happens!
Thank you. LOL
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Old 01-31-2019, 06:02 PM
 
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You'll prolly get arrested. some guy was on the lake yesterday and he got arrested.

Putting rescuers in danger in case your stupid butt falls thru the ice.
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Old 01-31-2019, 07:22 PM
 
Location: broke leftist craphole Illizuela
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Worst we had was about 5 years ago when 90 something percent of the lake froze over and even that year the ice was not that thick and not completely covering the lake. This year isn't even close December was pretty mild.
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Old 02-01-2019, 11:33 AM
 
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Context is important.


Consider Lake Winnebago, a large but mostly shallow lake in Wisconsin routinely becomes frozen solidly enough to drive across. It has about 2.4x10^11 liters of water in about 535 km2. You'll see sturgeon fishing "shanties" that are essentially travel-trailers with a part of the floor cut out driven out by full size pickup trucks. Every once in a while some goof leaves the shanty out as the lake starts to thaw but it is generally not a major disaster as the lake is probably "swimming pool depth" over a huge percentage of its area and maybe 25' deep in the deepest parts.



In contrast the depth of Lake Michigan is over 900' at maximum. The volume of Lake Michigan is about 8.4x10^15 liters of water in about 5,800km2.


When you try to work out the thermodynamics its like comparing single nuclear bomb to the Sun (and yes, I know fission != fusion but...)
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Old 02-19-2019, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. You'd definitely get a ticket at the very least for reckless driving. If you really want to try, go out to some tiny (shallow) lake in the burbs and have fun doing donuts.
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