Franklin Delano Roosevelt's uncle John was one of the founders of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club in 1885, and his 48-foot Icicle is still on display in the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, N.
The successful delivery of the serum was no foregone conclusion--temperatures of 50 or more below zero, blizzards, cracking river ice and winds that would suddenly hit a sled at 60 mph to 70 mph were everyday hazards.
These changes are making water supply and quality more difficult to obtain, affecting runoff and soil moisture, increasing water temperatures, decreasing snowpack and lake and river ice, threatening fish and aquatic species, and allowing saltwater intrusion and sea level rise.
Freeze dates are defined as the observed period when a lake or river was completely ice-covered, and break-up dates as the last ice break-up seen before the summer open-water phase.
China's best ski slopes are at the nearby Yabuli Ski Resort, while in Harbin itself the Songhua River provides space for ice skaters and ice hockey games.
Heavy machinery was brought in to break up and remove ice from the river, so that boats and divers could get in, Sideras explained.
The Environment Agency has advised motorists to take care as it continues to monitor rising river levels affected by melting snow and ice.
By this time, Samara had drifted 50 or 60 yards farther down the river, still bobbing in and out of the ice-cold water.
Conditions on the Yukon River required dogs to go through deep snow and navigate glare ice.
I'd covered only 16km before I stopped for a coffee at the Wye River General Store, a small shop that used to sell ice-creams and tinned food to hungry campers.
Hundreds of gigantic, intricate ice and snow sculptures line both sides of the banks of the frozen Songhua River, which cuts through Harbin.
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