There's a mini boom in snow removal and retail sales for local retailers. Snow plowers and haulers are in high demand. Cod fishermen unable to get to their fishing grounds are out of luck. And a hemmed in harbor clogged with ice spells hard times for smaller vessels. ...
Ice clogs at Homer's normally ice-free harbor has caused a bit of havoc. A finger float in the Homer Harbor was pointing at the sky this weekend, a causality of frozen ice and heaving tides.
"It's a big ice year, especially out in the bay," said Harbormaster Bryan Hawkins. "It's definitely a lot colder than we've had in the past. When it's extreme cold like that, floats will freeze to the piling so when the tide goes down, the piling doesn't go with it. Or we have the opposite problem, they'll stay submerged."
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