Organizers with the Lake Elmo Lions Club announced the cancellation of next Sunday's ice fishing contest...
Organizers measured the ice on the lake at about 12 inches, and said it needed to be 18 inches for everyone's safety, especially because most participants would be parking their vehicles along the lake's edge.
...this is the second time in recent years the event had to be canceled because of warm weather.
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How many lakes are there? We don't actually know. Lakes are often undercounted, or small lakes ignored, in larger scale geophysical surveys. It is hard to count the small lakes, or in some cases, even to define them.
When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time at lakes, but the idea of walking around a lake hardly every occurred to me or anyone else.
Imagine you were a very clever ant, living on a large log, floating in a big lake...
I suspect that the complexity of global climate change is under-appreciated.
Well, that is upsetting. So many participants were waiting eagerly to participate.