chucktownhawk
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And going shopping...... bitches
New '20 Iowa Football Schedule
- Thread starter RobHowe
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Well if any players or students get covid I hope almost all of them are healthy enough from being young and have the immune system that wont attack their own body to be without symptoms or very slight symptoms and hardly 'sick' at all.
It's not that they'd be sick, hopefully, it's that they test positive and have to be out for 14 days or whatever. If that's your qb, left tackle, or center? Your O is in trouble.
Motigerhawk
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Is the University all virtual or are they having in person classes? My daughters are pretty much virtual at their schools, I think they each have one or 2 in person classes. If Iowa is all virtual, the whole bubble concept will be a lot easier to maintain and, hopefully, minimize the players getting covid.
okeefe4prez
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We hit fitty over here Saturday night and last night. I think that damned wildfire cooled like half of the northern hemisphere. We only got up to 69 yesterday and I almost had to wear sweatshirt when we went up to the mountains. Definitely feels like football weather right now.
Fryowa
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See what we need, is the temp to drop to 25* the day after Thanksgiving and stay that way until the end of February, with zero snow.
Then the ice will be nice and thick, and I can drive my SUV on it to fish instead of trudging all my gear on foot a half mile through 18" of snow.
Northside Hawk
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18", or even 8" of snow would certainly affect the ice quality and consistency.
Need to expose that surface directly to the cold air. That's what gets good ice forming. You need what, 10-12" of ice thickness to safely drive an SUV sized vehicle out there?
Fryowa
Administrator
Yep, my personal minimum is a solid foot. 6 inches of clear ice would technically hold a half ton pickup but there’d be zero margin of error.
And you’re right that there are all different quality levels of ice. A “low snow” year with cold temps usually produces right around 20 inches in my area such as the IGL. Year before last I measured 25” at one point on Triboji (North end of West Lake Okoboji) and at Mill Creek in Paullina.
Where you run into trouble is slow-forming ice. When you have some midday thaw and refreeze at night and it happens repeatedly that shit is unbelievably brittle and really scary. You run into big problems with that stuff because once a couple inches of snow covers the shitty ice, you can’t tell where it is without drilling, and there are always idiots or newbs who don’t ask advice from people who know what they’re doing. On the flip side, in 2018 we had like 10 days in a row at first ice where it never got over 15° degrees without snow, and it got two feet thick in a hurry. That is some damn good ice—I remember on sunny days out on Triboji you could actually make out rocks on the bottom (25 feet deep) through two feet of ice. That stuff you could drive a fully loaded semi out there no problem. Hell, on any given bay on West O in January it’s not uncommon to have 30-40 pickups and 250+ people in the space of a couple football fields.
Goddammit, now I wanna go fishing.
okeefe4prez
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We've all seen Ice Road Truckers, bud.
Did you see when a bunch of cars fell through the ice on Lake Geneva at their WinterFest like 5 years ago? That shit was hilarious.
Fryowa
Administrator
Happens all the time around here. Triboji had about a dozen go through this past spring in one shot. The Geneva one was the same thing. Parking lots at the lake access fill up, so people drive their cars and pickups out on the lake to go fishing, and create giant impromptu parking lots just offshore.
It's fine in the early morning when the temps are in the 20s, but then it hits 40+ degrees and with all those cars sitting in one spot they can't get off the lake and they fall into like 3' of water. People think they're being safer by parking that close to shore but it's actually completely fucking stupid. The ground warms that shallow water way faster and its the first stuff to go to shit. You're safer driving way the hell out in the middle where the ice is better.
A car dunked in 3 feet of water is going to be just as totaled as one in 15'. It'll cost more to get it out of deeper water, but that's the least of your worries.
