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Ice on the Des Moines River shows signs of spring’s approach

-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen
The water currents in the Des Moines River have created this almost perfectly round ice chunk along the bank north of Fort Dodge. The round part slowly rotates in the current.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen
Big chunks of ice on the Des Moines River wait to move downstream north of Fort Dodge.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen
Ice chunks in the Des Moines River are backed up for about a mile above Loomis Park north of Fort Dodge.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen
The ice on the Des Moines River is breaking up into large chunks leading to this ice dam just north of Fort Dodge.

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