So yesterday a friend stops by and says "You can't let your tires freeze into ice as deep as the wheel rim.  It can pop the seal and then you have flat tires."   :-?  Apparently this can be a problem for ice-fishermen.  Or it could have been my friends' diabolical humor playing tricks on me...
Today my brother and I were considering our friend's warning and he says "Maybe you should go down and dig out the tires and see how deep the water/slush is around them".
So I did and sure enough the water was definitely up to the bead on the rims of the tires.   :-X  That was 2:00 pm; the photo is around 6:00 pm.  What doesn't show are some sturdy chains and two come-alongs which were also employed.  Now at least the car is on "dry" ice closer to shore.

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