The ice booms are not usually completely installed until the day before Christmas. By this time, it is usually quite cold with ice, fog, and snow around.

Not the best of conditions to be working out on the river in. One man I knew fell in accidentally and spent 15 minutes in the water before being rescued.

A life preserver kept him afloat but his legs were too numb to do much. It was the day before Christmas. It shook him up a bit but he was ok.

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