Summary Illinois family makes 45-foot-tall icicle in front yard in St. Elmo.
(AP) — An Illinois family has created a 45-foot-tall icicle in their front yard.
Katherine Ragel of St. Elmo in in south-central Illinois Fayette County says she s worried there might be an accident because passing traffic sometimes will "stop in the middle of the road."
Ragel s son, Garrick Moreland, made the icicle. The tree trimmer climbed into one of Ragel s trees with a hose and turned on the water when temperatures dropped a few weeks ago. The icicle kept growing.
The Effingham Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1yhsaZF ) the idea originally came from Ragel s late husband, Alan Ragel, who liked to build smaller icicles along the driveway.
St. Elmo is about 20 miles southwest of Effingham on Interstate 70.
