Sam The Bam
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Pandemic or no pandemic, the annual Port Huron Float Down is going ahead this weekend.
Closed border, COVID-19 restrictions cloud already-rebellious Port Huron Float Down event
This is an annual, unofficial, "nobody is in charge of this" event where Americans will round up inner tubes, air mattresses, inflatable boats, and large quantities of alcohol, wade into the St. Clair River at Port Huron Michigan, and set themselves adrift on a major river that both forms the border between the US and Canada, and is also a shipping channel.
They depend more on luck than planning to avoid disaster. The US authorities tell them not to do it and the Canadian authorities repeat the warning, but they do it none the less. Four years ago unfavourable winds sent 1,500 of them adrift across the border to Canada where they turned up in their swimsuits sans passports and relied on the Canadian authorities (and tax payer) to send them back home again.
This year they're going ahead again, despite the pandemic. Most will likely be crammed close together in small inflatable boats or similar conveyances.
With the border being closed this year, Canadian authorities have promised unspecified penalties if they set a toe across the line, although that's probably not going to pose much of a deterant.
It's Michigan mate, say no more.
Herself is from Michigan, we lived there for the first couple of years when we moved over here, I couldn't get out of that State fast enough.