DOOR COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – High winds on the frozen waters of Green Bay are leaving some people on the eastern shoreline with a mess of ice…..and a lot of property damage.
Blocks and blocks of ice as far as the eye can see piled up on the Door County shoreline just north of Dykesville.
Ron Renard tells WLUK he saw it happen Saturday morning.
“I was reading my paper up on my recliner here, and all of a sudden, I noticed my chair was shifting. And I looked, and there it was, going up, going up, going up, going up, going up. And all of a sudden, it stopped.”
He says the ice destroyed the wooden deck on his neighbor’s cottage and broke the front window too.
“There’s a lot of ice here. If you go that way, there’s a lot more yet.”
Renard says he had no damage to his property, but the ice mangled a dock nearby.
Renard’s other neighbor lost a building to the shoves.
“This guy here, last Saturday he said I’m going to fix my shed up here. He worked all day on that shed there, and by nightfall, that’s what it looks like.”
And to the north, shoves overlooked the Sturgeon Bay Shipping Channel near Cabot’s Point.
“It kind of self-compounds, and rides up on top of itself right tight to the shoreline.”
JJ Malvitz, Professional Ice Fishing Guide, says the steep shorelines, and blustery winds combine to push the blocks high in the air.
“It’s really cool just the shape of the ice, but then also the color of the ice. You have those deep aqua colors. Those turquoise colors, all kind of combine to really form a nice visual appearance up here.”
Meanwhile, Renard says this is the worst damage in at least 10 years.
“Well, it will go back to spring eventually, but I don’t know when. Got to get some warm weather you know.”
It may not be the last time we see the formations.
Experts say there is still a lot of ice on the waters of Green Bay.
If we get more wind and some precipitation, more blocks could shove ashore.
