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Will icy rivers choke Phila. energy, food traffic?

More ice this year

Coast Guard icebreakers are pushing to keep the Delaware clear as the deep freeze threatens to close Philadelphia-area ports. "Fast ice" over the weekend started to surround the Ben Franklin and Walt Whitman bridges. Pack ice is encroaching on refinery channels. The frozen Schuylkill faced a second threat from the CSX oil-train wreck that has limited traffic near the 34th St. bridge. More in my story in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer here.