Live Leak has a really good video up of the ice slowly
moving up from the water to the houses.
37 this am near Nashville
At least its quit raining for a while here,sorry you
people out west...wish ya`ll could get some rain
We don't get rain in California this time of year. We have TWO seasons: wet and dry.
Wet=October through March; dry April-September--six months dry, six months wet. Always been that way; probably always will be.
Rain is in northern California, thus all the redwoods and lumber industry. Southern California was always dessert. Nice and warm. That's was brought all the folks out west from the snowy and chilly east and midwest.
I grew up just a few miles from where that video was shot. We had that happen several times in the '60s. After a very cold winter, the ice would grow to 6 or more feet thick. If the spring is cold, it takes a long time to melt, and the air can be quite warm before it thaws. This causes the ice to crystallize into long thin crystals as you can see in the video. It is also very weak.
The wind ordinarily will push the ice to the shore and the shore stops it from moving. When ice is in the condition of weak crystals, it just moves up the shore and piles up as in the video. This regularly happened during the very cold '60's and early '70's.