Photos: Chatham's icy state of emergency

“It’s precarious right now,” Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff said Friday after his municipality declared a state of emergency and all eyes were on the Thames River and what Mother Nature had in store this weekend for those living along the ice-packed waterway. The photos tell the story:
Chatham-Kent’s fire and EMS chief Bob Crawford is shown along the Thames River near Poppe Road in Chatham-Kent on Friday. Officials shut down access to the area due to heavy ice jams.
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