Ice gone

On Thursday afternoon the surface of the Ottawa River in this part of town was still white. It rained on Thursday night and by Saturday all that ice had broken up and floated away. I saw a massive "island" of chunky ice moving slowly along, further downstream. It took only a few days for all the local rivers to flow free and fast. Walking across the Minto Bridges at the moment we can hear the high water swishing against the bridge supports. Its volume and speed is fearsome where the current's strong and at the calmer edges of the river it's almost overflowing its banks.