not only that, but the blowing snow will fill your tip-up holes with snow and will make it nearly impossible to fish,I have been there before and it is no fun.one time during the Benson Derby the wind came up so hard and fast that it blew all my big wooden underwater tip-ups out of their holes and stripped all the line off the reels because the hooks caught on the edge of the holes.what a mess. I saw it coming and hid inside my shanty which was tied to a three wheeler,The wind dragged the wheeler until it got stuck on a crack in the ice.then my shanty left the ground while I was still in it, tethered only to the three wheeler,I was a foot off the ice dangling in mid air.I had never seen the wind blow like that before in the winter.this is a TRUE story.Maybe some of you older guys remember that day.Anyway,my point is,it ain't worth it. However,good luck if you go.
