Ice is Crazy

So we had a very cold January. The lake was frozen solid. Then the last half of February was pretty warm. The ice started to melt. That's when things get crazy. When the ice melts there are all these huge sheets of ice just floating around in the lake. Then, the wind and the current pushes them all to this side of the lake. When they get here they crash into the shore, sometimes pushing sheets of ice dozens of feet up onto the banks (bringing broken off pieces of the shoreline with them) or they just crash and build up into these huge piles of crushed ice. No kidding, many of them are over 8 feet tall. Then as the sheets that are still in the water slow down they are left with all these crazy cracks and formations. It is really wild.