Only a few pockets of Lake Erie water show through the ice, looking like small streams or ponds in a frozen tundra.

Through the use of a drone, this image by photographer David Piano shows items on a rural property in southwestern Ontario in danger of falling into Lake Erie due to ongoing soil erosion.

Through the use of a drone, this image by photographer David Piano shows items on a rural property in southwestern Ontario in danger of falling into Lake Erie due to ongoing soil erosion.

"If you drive along the Ontario shoreline of Lake Erie, you see evidence of receding bluffs, and that's because those bluffs are being battered by winter waves. When we have ice cover, it protects the ...