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Only one problem for Maine ice-breakers: No ice
http://www.pressherald.com/news/Only-one-problem-for-Maine-icebreaker-No-ice-.htmlBATH — A Coast Guard ice-breaking mission on Maine's Kennebec River was the shortest in recent memory. That's because the Coast Guard found no ice whatsoever on the 22-mile stretch from Bath to Gardiner.
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Chief Warrant Officer Bob Albert, ice mission manager, says the vessels chugged up the river Monday morning but found no ice. The mission was declared over at 11:30 a.m.
Blame the lack of ice on an unseasonably warm winter. There weren't enough cold days to create river ice that's normally thick enough to support ice-fishing shacks.
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My favorite smelt camp on the Kennebec pulled its shacks back in mid-February.
Last weekend the Kennebec was open as far north as the Forks and the mergansers had returned.
Chipmunks are out of hibernation.
Global warming sucks.
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