St. Joe River, February 3, 2010

The ice flow is jamming the river at the mouth of Storm Creek. Usually, after a normal winter, these ice jams can be much larger and often require explosives to break them up. No such problems this year. The road you can see across the river is the old river road and the current road going across the concrete bridge is built on the old railroad grade from Marble Creek to Avery.

The last photo is looking upstream. It shows how the ice is holding to the stream edges with the deeper current breaking through the middle section.