Jim Diodati recalls hearing stories as a boy about scow stuck in Niagara River, he says it's slowly breaking apart under nature's pressure over a century
It's the question everyone is taking guesses at... when will the scow stuck in the Niagara River since 1918 finally go over the falls.
Niagara Falls mayor Jim Diodati says it moved in 2019, broke apart in 2022, and moved again earlier this month.
He's putting this all on Mother Nature, and what spring time ice might do. "I think it's going to go over in pieces. It's breaking apart because of the power of the water and ice, that it's not going to go over in one piece, as it once was, but I can foresee one good storm with elevated water levels."
It's also a story that takes him back to his childhood, when he heard stories from his father.
His father, a tour guide, told them of one of the men rescued from the scow. "Was that one of the gentlemen was so scared, when they got there his hair had turned white. That was the story my dad told us when we were little, it's been told thousands of times since, we've never been able to get it verified."
You can predict when you think it'll go, if it does, in the news poll question on this website.
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