Officials across Middle Tennessee urged residents to stay off of frozen lakes and ponds as temperatures have not been consistently cold enough to create ice thick enough to walk or skate on.
According to state resource officers, ice under 4 inches thick is never safe to walk on and even at that thickness temperatures across the state have fluctuated too frequently in recent weeks to create surfaces that could safely hold a person without them falling in.
The biggest danger isn’t the ice itself, but severe hypothermia which could set in in minutes after a person falls through.
Officials Warn of Thin Ice on Lakes and Ponds
Jan 5, 2018 | 6:00 AM