On February 12, 2013, after a heavy snowfall in New England, I wrote the following: They will have trouble disposing of it as cannot dump into river or streams. Some years ago a community in the midwest decided to load the snow into railroad gondola cars and head the train south until the warmer temperature would melt it. This reminded me of an incident with a USLines cargo ship on a westbound winter voyage from Europe to New York carrying containers on deck. She encountered considerable ocean spray which froze everything on deck including the stacked containers and their lashings. Upon arriving at her Hudson River pier no amount of steaming could melt the ice so cargo operations could not commence. After several futile days it was decided to sail the vessel south to pick up the Gulf stream warm current after which the ice could be dislodged. By the time she returned to New York she was a week behind schedule and a mariner said "We dumped a few tons of ice on Castro's doorstep!"
tjs
I had a similar problem, many yeas ago, when sailing to Canada in the winter. Not an easy job to do in the frozen waters of St.Lawrence River.
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