After recieving a phone call from my good buddy who was the 3rd last man picked by the chopper,I really don't know what to say ,just glad they all made it home....We were on that spot on Weds.and we talked thurs.and both agreed not to go ,but it was -10 all night and my buddy went to look Fri. morning after watching the weather network for the forcast ,he says they were forcasting 10 k winds and all the water on top was frozen with not a breath of wind,so he decided to go.Well he got out there and it started to snow and when that stopped ,BAM in came the wind,he said it moved his portable with him in it and all he could do to stop from blowing away,was put his feet in the hut and his arm down the hole.....he held on for almost 5 mins ,then it stopped,he packed up and as soon as he was packed ,it came back with a vengence.He was fishing near 2 others and the 3 of them headed back to the dock at BBP,but got to about 90 fow and there was a 10 ft crack of open water ,so they turned around and headed for Oro.It was blinding winds with the snow that just fell and the whole bay started breaking up,they had to jump 3-4 cracks about 2 ft wide to get to the large group of people,but when they were waiting to get picked up,all he could do was lie on the ice as not to get blown in.He says he looked at the sheet they were on and 30 yds to the left there was 3 ft waves and 30 yds right of him,same thing...Glad they all made it and that's quite an end to this years season.....TC and tight lines all......Chuck...