That must be a miserable situation. Your retirement home is in NS, isn't it? Margaret L >Well, spring is springing here too. It's going to be plus 1 today and the >snow is melting, where it is hit by the sun. We don't have much cover, just >very frozen. It's been to cold to snow. > >We have been watching the situation in Badger, Newfoundland...dam broke >upriver, and the broken ice came downstream from 3 (count'em) rivers and >into the town. Then it froze, up to the doorknobs in most places. It is >going to be months before it properly thaws, but ice does move, and it is, >carrying many homes off as if they were in a big glacier (which I guess that >is sort of what it is). This is the strangest thing we have ever heard of. > >Lucinda