Members,

 To all of you who stepped up in the last few days to help with the potential ice removal disaster.  Thank you, thank you.

What did you do?  Not much, except, we had almost 9,000 square feet of ice that we together broke into pieces loaded into wheelbarrows wheeled outside, and dumped.

What did we save?  The warm space.

Because of the unlevel nature of our floor most of the melting ice originally 11,000+ gallons of water, as it leaked out of our curbing, was 90% moving east, toward the warm room, requiring 24 hour attention, and would likely have continued for many more days.

We removed that ice in less than 24 hours manually.

Again,  thank you.

Oh, Paula says, I should tell you all this is not how we will do it next year.
We will be sealing the curbing to hold back the water so it can be drained properly.

Sincerely,
Michael: for better or worse, your ice guy