Saw this little beauty on Craigslist.com:

 

In all seriousness, there are some unfortunate folks down there. I can't imagine dock designers don't think about snow and ice loading.
See what ice and 18" of Snow can do to marinas

 

Trust me, up here they do. Our docks go thru some serious hell in the winter and make it thru with little to no problems. Must just be them crazy **** westerners on the lakes...

Oh, what a tool for blaming mother nature...shoulda watched it a little closer.



BREW

 

Where's that dang Global Warming when you need it!


Someone call Algore.........this has got to be his fault, somehow.

:santa:

 

Those were some good pictures.

Question: Why weren't those boats on land? When you get 3 to 4 feet of ice on the lakes and the ice shifts it will crush everything including the docks. Those docks should have been pulled out of the water.

Those over hangs can't be that strong? That was hardly snow??

 

I posted pix a couple of years ago showing a serious freeze on Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

Here's one of them. Ice so bad it caused many docked boats to sink.



If you really want to see something amazing go here (click on the pix for full size)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/icestorm.asp

 

Dude that's Lake of the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri! They don't get 3-4ft of snow there. That was probably a huge storm for them.

As a civil engineer this saddens me. Looks like some negligence on the designers part. I can't imagine they didn't include a snow load in their calcs. Then again they may never have thought about snow in that part of the country.

I hope the boat owners had insurance.

 

Table Rock Lake is in Branson. Lake of the Ozarks is in, well, Lake of the Ozarks And those docks aren't designed to hold up 6"+ inches of ice and 6"+ of snow.

 

Dang man you are fast. I realized my mistake a few minutes ago.

 

http://www.kolr10.com/news/default.a...ownews&id=6944

It may not look like alot, but we havent gotten anything over about 4" of light snow in 10 years...... it was heavy enough that my truck was squatting under the weight of it in the bed for about 2 weeks.

 

I'm a CE to, I suppose I should restate that the designers probably did think about it. Just that the marinas probably didn't put 2 and 2 together when selecting the "inferior" slips. I'm not saying there was anything wrong with the docks, but 18" of snow is VERY rare in that area. Just an unfortunate turn of events.

 

All of the wooden piles driven in around here are tapered. And I think the piles are driven in fat part first which prevents the ice from lifting the piles out of the ground.

 

Is this what they mean when talking about ice fishing?

 

Dang right... Table Rock is DEEP in the heart of the 'zarks!

 

No more Table Rock talk! Makes me miss summer even more...