Ice Bergs Blowing Into South Shore

Toss in a slightly elevated lake level and some nasty Northwest winds for a couple days and you have glaciers moving onto the south shore on Lake Mille Lacs. The picture here shows at 17-foot tall ice finger that crawled ashore two days ago and as of this morning was beating up against a townhome unit at Izatys Resort. Thanks to some quick work by operations manager Rob Wilsey, the deck and unit were spared disaster after Wilsey took on the white wall with a bobcat. In his 15 years on the lake, he has never seen this much ice ashore at Izatys. Looks like there might be ice standing ashore well into May. Winds are scheduled to shift in the next couple days which means the ice will take aim at other ends of the lake.