Ithaca is cold

[edenfalling]

This is what Cascadilla Creek looked like at 11am this morning, January 7 2014.

When I leaned on the railing of the Tioga St. bridge to take the photo, I heard a loud QUACK! from almost directly underneath me… and sure enough, there was a trio of possibly suicidal ducks swimming in ice-filled water. (You can’t see the third; it swam out of view under the bridge before I could snap the photo.)



Ducks are supposed to be migratory, dammit. Migrate! Fly south! Ithaca is not a good place for you right now.

(The creek had completely iced over by the time I walked home from work around 7:30pm, incidentally. These frigid temperatures following heavy snow and a warm spell have produced some really nasty ice jams downstream where the local creeks flow into Cayuga Lake. A bunch of storm sewers in Northside have backed up, flooding several streets and swamping a lot of people’s basements -- and thus killing their furnaces, yikes!)