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To: grannie9; Cardhu; restornu; null and void

Morning everyone, photo-realistic picture there Gran.

We went out to the lake last evening, where the wind was blowing on the ice and the ice had formed into ice flows, and we got to see the ice mountains form. The sheet is probably 18 inches thick, due to the sub-zero weather, and the gigantic pieces form where the flows collide, and they lift up into the air like whale tails and crash, forming piles that go down to the bottom of the lake. It was like a slow motion train wreck. These huge teeth or fins, depending on how you want to see them, suddenly rise from the lake, 18 to 20 feet high, then slice or crash or shatter the pieces around them. This process has devastated the point of land, moving car sized rocks across it. I'll try to get some pics of the mountain later today, it was blowing snow when we were there and you could only be out for a few minutes at a time.


4,188 posted on 02/28/2007 9:22:03 AM PST by Sundog (You can not bring prosperity to the poor by trashing the rich.)
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To: Sundog
What a wonderful description of something I have never seen. I will be looking forward to those pics showing the power of ice in nature...



...meanwhile, here is what man can do with it in an Igloo.



4,192 posted on 02/28/2007 11:14:16 AM PST by Cardhu
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