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The ICW???

We just got word from Claiborne Young of the Salty Southeast Cruiser’s Network that the ICW south of Jacksonville is covered with ice!  SOUTH of Jacksonville! FLORIDA!

http://cruisersnet.net/ice-on-aicw-south-of-jacksonville-florida/

We  returned from the holidays in Minnesota and can report that it did indeed feel much colder here.  Iguanas are falling out of the trees onto tourist’s heads, sea turtles are being removed from the waterways and warmed indoors, and the fish are floating belly-up.  When NASA moved the space shuttle to the launching pad last week, they restricted their outdoor worker’s shifts to 30 minutes due to the “dangerous temperatures”.  Miami has had a wind-chill warning on more than one day this week.

My brother Jim, just returning from a ski trip on the Norwegian Riveria, aka the north shore of Lake Superior,  reported eyewitness accounts of less ice on Lake Superior than on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in Florida !   This is the final hint needed that it is time to get out of Stuart and head south.  What is the temperature in Brazil today?