ST. LOUIS - Whether it's a park pool, or a backyard bond – St. Louis is one big ice cube right now.
After two weeks of subfreezing temperatures, most standing water is a sheet of ice.
For one Warson Woods woman, her usually calming backyard oasis has become a frozen tundra.
“We've never seen it this frozen since 2001,” said Rebecca Harrison, thinking back to the year her family installed a water garden fed by the natural spring in their backyard. “[Only] twice before it's been bad enough that we put both heaters in.”
Harrison's garden has been featured in the St. Louis Watering Garden Society's annual Pond-O-Rama tour, as well as magazines.
She now has her heaters running, but the ice on her multi-level pond and waterfall system is thick. Water is still running underneath it. Even below that, Harrison's two dozen koi fish are resting.
“They pretty much go dormant, even when it's not frozen,” she said. ”They go dormant and they just sit on the bottom.”
