Quote Originally Posted by GreyhoundGirl
What happens when the water freezes? What happens when the tide rises? What happens if there is a storm and the water level is really high?

It's facinating! I've heard of it but never really thought about it much...
Seeing as this is located in Virginia near the Atlantic Ocean, I don't think that body of water freezes very often.

Now tides, I'd be curious how they engineered around that. I imagine if a hurricane was looming, that it'd be shut down.