“Lake Simcoe is effectively full”
“Authorities say the dikes around the Holland Marsh may not be enough to prevent serious flooding this spring.Tom Hogenbirk, with the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, said today that there has been so much snow and ice this winter that Lake Simcoe is effectively full.
He said that anyone living along rivers, streams and even drainage ditches should report ice jams or clogged culverts to their municipality.
The last major flood in the Holland Marsh was in 1960.”
Going from one extreme to the other – from major drought last year to more moisture than can be handled even by Lake Simcoe.
I’m watching out the window as the beginnings of another foot of snow are falling. Yes, that’s a foot over the next 25 to 36 hours.
I wonder what conditions will be like on Opening Day, last Saturday of April around here. But whatever they are like, I will probably be out fly fishing! Spring thaw can’t come soon enough for me.
Update: Now they are suggesting that the area I live in could receive as much as 50 CM of snow. That’s almost 20 inches.