The warmer-than-normal January did not stop ice fishermen from setting up their shanties at Lakeshore State Park on Sunday.
Chicago firefighters are warning everyone to stay off the ice after several rescues over the weekend.Southeast Wisconsin experienced one of the warmest starts to January on record. Several days with temperatures above freezing and little snowfall left lakes and lagoons with little time to freeze.
Strehlow said four inches of ice is generally safe for a person to walk on. The warm weather caused an unpredictable freeze, leaving an uneven freeze across bodies of water,"We're always going to say no ice is safe ice. That's just because ice is unpredictable," Strehlow said. Strehlow demonstrated with an ice spud one portion of the ice in a lagoon at Lakeshore State Park how one portion of ice would not break, but ice just inches away did.
An ice spud is a long pick used to test the reliability of ice. Strehlow recommended that ice fishermen don't go on ice without one. He also said ice picks and a float suit can help someone escape the water, should they fall in."If you're alone and you go through the ice and there's no way for you to get out and no one for you to call for, you're in a pretty tough spot," Strehlow said.
"Understanding the lake you're going on is probably one of the most important things. You need to know if there's springs on that lake, if there's a warm water discharge, if there's a river that flows into it, if there's current.
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