For the first time in 11 years, the New Years Day tradition of costumed hordes of charity raisers running into the Lake Michigan at North Avenue Beach has been called off due you gueessed it, THE FREEZING TEMPS!
“We thought about going in and maybe not going under water,” said Jeff Coggins, who organizes the annual “Freezin’ for a Reason in a report from the Sun Times.” “The way the waves have been breaking on shore and freezing, it created these big domes of ice and it appeared to be too dangerous.” Coggins specified the ‘Polar Plunge’ has been postponed, not exactly cancelled and has raised $17,600 for American Greyhound, which finds homes for “retired racing greyhounds, as well as other sight hounds in need.”
That did not stop the 9th Annual Waukegan Polar Bear Plunge hosted by the Waukegan Park District and the city of Waukegan, which as you can see below went down this morning. I bet they will not reget it, right?
