Great Lakes storm

[SJ Fairbank]

So in that photo, what's the deal with the blue house on the far right. Looks like it's just as close to the water as the ice-covered ones, and it's clean as a whistle. Is that the house with no insulation so every thing melted off?

Saw that too. Pure speculation; but possibly the "iced " homes, are summer homes and unoccupied this time of year. Thus not enough heat and heat loss to prevent the icing?

If you're looking at photo #1, I think it's an illusion that the blue one has no ice. It appears that the ice/spray was blowing in slightly from right to left from our perspective. Notice that the side of the house in the foreground is clear, up against the left margin of the picture. To my eye the blue one has ice covering the front of the house just as the one in the foreground. Either way that's some mess.

 

[Joe Bruno]

I had read earlier in the week that the ice covered houses only have a break wall in front of the houses. where the ones with no ice have a rip rap of rocks out front to break the waves.