Central NY couple build cozy igloo on Oneida Lake (video)

Updated: Feb. 12, 2026, 10:02 a.m.Watch "" on YouTubeWatch Couple builds igloo on Oneida Lake in subzero temps By Steve Featherstone | sfeatherstone@syracuse.com Cicero, N.Y. — Kimberly Bement and Noel McCarthy learned an important lesson after building an 8,000-pound ice igloo in their backyard last year: keep extra gloves around. Numb fingers take the fun out of it. So the couple gifted each other new pairs of Gore-Tex gloves for Christmas on the off chance they might get squirrely enough to build another igloo this year. But as anyone who has stepped outside during this protracted, sub-Arctic Central New York winter can tell you, it’s too darn cold out there to do much of...