Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island Recovers from Icy Grip

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Title: Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island Recovers from Icy Grip

Date: 01-18-2018 06:03 PM

Summary: As temperatures on the Chesapeake Bay dropped as low as 9 degrees early this month, a barricade of ice up to 10 inches thick formed around Tangier Island, preventing boats from bringing groceries, medicine and other supplies to the 722 residents on that speck of Virginia off the Eastern Shore.

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Title: Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island Recovers from Icy Grip

Date: 01-18-2018 06:03 PM

Summary: As temperatures on the Chesapeake Bay dropped as low as 9 degrees early this month, a barricade of ice up to 10 inches thick formed around Tangier Island, preventing boats from bringing groceries, medicine and other supplies to the 722 residents on that speck of Virginia off the Eastern Shore.

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As a boy I remember state ice breakers coming to the Potomac to get the oystermen out so they could earn a living.
Not enough of them left in the County to need an ice breaker here for that now.
Most all of the big oyster box sterns had metal on them for cutting the sheet ice.
The tide was a crucial factor. as the tide fell the channel they opened closed up.
Those old time watermen didn't let e little ice keep them home.

Back then a large oyster boat with three men on it could catch 100 bushels a day or better if the weather wasn't too bad.

 

[GWguy]

I watch news from the Eastern Shore, and during the worst of the ice they did have an ice breaker making 2 runs a day to keep channels open for food/meds/etc.