Your looking at EPIC ice. It's as smooth as glass and crystal clear. When I took the photo it was very thin, perhaps one-half inch or less.
The wind came up as the day progressed and gobbled it up. What a shame. Not all of
the lake water was frozen and as the wind blows across the water towards the ice, the lapping water waves erode the thin ice.
Five years ago Mother Nature blessed this lake with THICK ice like this. It was similar to that lake ice in the Slovak Mountains just before Christmas. Go ahead and CLICK HERE and see if you get vertigo watching that short video!
After I shared the video of the ice in the Slovak Mountains, I had a few folks ask me how it's possible for ice to be that clear as the ice cubes in their freezers are always white.
Your ice cubes are white because of tiny tiny air bubbles that form as the water freezes. There's
gas inside your water just like there is in soda in two-liter bottles. When the pressure is released, this air comes out of suspension. You see the bubbles come up in your Coke or Pepsi, right? That because the pressure in your room is much less than what was in the bottle.
Remember, minutes before the water is put into the ice cube trays it was under 60 or more pounds of pressure per square
inch inside your water pipes. As soon as you put it in the freezer, the pressure drops to around 14 pounds per square inch.
In the Slovak mountains and at my house, the lake water was not under 60 pounds per square inch of pressure minutes before it froze. It's been under normal air pressure. Any air in the water long ago bubbled out.
The water in my lake and in the Slovak mountains is very pure. There's no sediment in suspension in the water. Tiny particles of sediment are what make river water cloudy.
You can experiment and make clear ice at your home. Just take some tap water put it in a clear small glass and leave it on the counter for a few
days. Then put it in the refrigerator for a few days. Finally, put it in the freezer. It should freeze crystal clear.
Cool Christmas Gifts
Santa was very good to me. I got a nice floor mat for my Man Cave, a wonderful pair of wool gloves with the fingertips exposed but
with a mitten cover if I need it and a fantastic optical sight for one of my tactical rifles.
I hope you also got some nice things. My daughter Kelly got an interesting book - Homework for Grownups
- that I was looking at for a good half hour.
It's a practical book I feel you could really use. Here it is.
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