Yeah I was born and raised in N. Wisconsin and you don't mess with ice on creek's, river's, air systems on ponds. Moving water equals unstable ice!! Every year you would hear of someone or someone's kid trying to take a shortcut home and crossing a creek or a river somewhere where they shouldn't have. Or playing someplace where they should not have been playing on ice. I lived on a lake behind our house and it was called Spring Lake. For a very good reason. Spring's all over in it. I fell in once when I was 15 at about waist high talk about mind curdling cold!!! Thank goodness I was only in 4 foot of water! You will forever respect it once you fall in it and if you live though it!
