THE CLIMATE MAY BE CHANGING SOMEWHERE, BUT IT SURE HASN'T BEEN ANY WARMER IN BAYFIED

YET ANOTHR WATER MAIN BREAK ON 6TH ST....

...BRING IN THE BIG STUFF

Tuesday,  8:30 AM.  40 degrees F, up from 35 an hour ago. Wind NE, calm to gusty. The sky is partly cloudy but clearing.  The humidity is down to 56% and the barometer is up slightly, at 30.19".
   Over the weekend another water main break surfaced on 6th st., which is Hwy. 13 through the city.
It surfaced  pretty much in the same spot that had recently been repaired and the road patched with asphalt.  I assume this is another break in the previously repaired line, the water now surfacing in the same place.  In any case, the rupture probably happened sometime earlier, the leak now becoming apparent as the ground has thawed out.
   I can't fault the city on any of these occurrences, as the frost has descended to around eight feet in depth this winter, much deeper than would historically be expected.  I don't know how old the water and sewer lines that have ruptured are, but they were certainly laid decades and more ago, and even if replaced in the relatively recent past were certainly laid at the depth of the first lines laid a century and more ago.     Even taking into consideration that there may have been extenuating circumstances such as more recent underground culverts in some areas that transferred additional cold into the ground, most of the infrastructure is at depths that have not frozen in a century.  And this with record or near record  insulating snow depths (which of course has little effect where roads are plowed)
   To add insult to injury, the Daily Press published a major article yesterday on local citizens who are active in a national organization "combating climate change."
   The climate may be changing somewhere, but it sure hasn't been any warmer in Bayfied.