Every year when the weather warms up the ineventible happens and the ice in all the rivers melt and flow toward James Bay. This year it's obviously happening a bit early, by about a month. No one should really be surprised I guess, but we are. The flood co-ordinator was meant to be hired Monday. When levels were recorded on Friday, that plan was quickly altered and someone was hired Saturday afternoon. Evacuations are being talked of, we're being updated on Facebook, and the local radio station (first in Cree and then in English) but right now it doesn't look like it'll be too extreme. 
The causeway across to the mainland flooded early this morning and we keep getting reports that one river's blocked with ice while the other's moving and vice versa. The two orange pilons behind me in the picture kind of show where the road leads down. The dip in the land across the 'lake' is where the road goes back up. It's under!They blocked the causeway last night well before it flooded for safety's sake as well as the road across to Anderson's Island, though it still has a ways to go.
I've got three dogs in the house right now for various reasons so we went out for a walk this morning to check out the river and work out some bottled energy. The pictures here are where we usually go for our walk, and where I took my mom out onto the ice just last week during her visit. Apparently it was about four feet higher but dropped down again around 8am when the ice started moving again.
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