Yesterday I heard on the local evening news that the ice jam on the river (see my images from Feb 23 and 24) had broken up and the river was clear (well let's say free of the ice jam - the water is hardly clear) again. I was surprised since we really did not have that much warm weather the past couple of days.
I went down there this afternoon in spite of the cold and wind thanks to a cold front that moved through earlier today. There was a little debris floating down the river in spots (common this time of year when trees along the river banks fall over from storms and loss of solid ground) but basically it's all open again.