In my last post I mentioned visiting a friend who lived just downstream from the ice jam north of Bismarck. I didn’t get much of a view of it from Fox Island, as it started downstream from the lookout, but from my friend’s backyard the view was a little bit better. I grabbed my camera and banged out a few shots, which I assembled into the panoramic shot you see above. It’s actually pretty hard to see much, although the ice does pile up more on the right side of the shot.

Obviously the photo for his post ain’t the real deal, man…unless you have microscopic vision! The real version is 6000 pixels wide, weighin in at 1.75mb. I don’t want to force anyone to have to download a 1.75mb picture every time they come to this post, so instead I’ll post a link:

Click here to view/download the panoramic image (1.75mb).

If you want to save it to your computer to view in something other than your web browser, simply right-click on that link and use “Save As…” to download a copy.

This is the ice jam that everyone feared during last week’s flooding; the idea was that if this ice jam were to let go, it would send a surge of even more ice and water into an already bad situation downstream. For a while the word had actually gone out that this ice jam had let loose, but fortunately that turned out to be untrue. So far it remains intact, and hopefully it won’t cause any further problems once it lets go. In the mean time, however, it is starting to back up more water and ice behind it, causing distress for residents living upstream.