German Icebreaker heads up the Mississippi River (pic)

What global warming?????     German Icebreaker heads up the  Mississippi River     As you may have seen on the news it's been very cold in Minnesota .  So cold, in fact, that the US Corp of Engineers has borrowed a German Icebreaker to clear the Mississippi River for freighter traffic.  The Icebreaker is starting near Winona and working its way northward. Here is a picture as the hard work of ice breaking begins. Impressive!   see below:            German Icebreaker heads up the Mississippi

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