Arctic Ocean Ice Crashes on Alaska Shores (20'high x100'wide ice tsunami)

ap ^ | Jan 27, 2006 | ap

[RedBloodedAmerican]

In this photo provided by Arctic Photo Safari, heavy equipment removes massive ice ridges being pushed from the frozen Beaufort Sea into Barrow, Alaska, Tuesday Jan. 24, 2006. Two ice surges, known to Alaska Natives as ivus, stunned residents who had never seen such large blocks of ice rammed ashore in nearly three decades. Ivus are like frozen tsunamis and crash ashore violently. They have killed hunters and are among the Arctic's most feared natural phenomena. (AP Photo/Arctic Photo Safari, John Tidwell)

[RedBloodedAmerican]

More evidence of global cooling.

[Neets]

Hot in here.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Streak!

[cmsgop]

Thats Cool

[VOA]

Bulldozers cleared the ice.

Boy are these folks going to have to answer to the environmentalists.
First they are running bulldozers, burning fossil fuels and
generating greenhouse gases.
Then they destroy natural ice formations.

[blam]

Anything to do with the earthquake around Indonesia?

[nmh]

Nah, it's warming, right?

;)

[TaMoDee]

Might be! Shaken and not stirred don't ya'know! (Or was it the other way around?)

[RightWhale]

Has to do with high winds, which is a fact of life on the north slope. If you look at a satellite image or even a USGS topo map of the region you will see it is covered with lakes in summer, and the lakes, which are sinkholes in the permafrost and would otherwise be round or at least of random shapes, are elongated in a direction. Wind does that.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Icy Stuntaz!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Makes you wonder what the cost of gas is in Barrow; right next to the wells...

[thackney]

Anything to do with the earthquake around Indonesia?

No, just the effect of the right combinations of winds and currents. A few journalist are using the term tsunami just to catch the eye, not a real comparison.

Frozen tsunami, Mountains of ice coming ashore called threat to property, lives

[RightWhale]

When the huge building and plant modules were barged in to Prudhoe, a couple of the barges were left at the shoreline because winter closed the route. The ice piled up around the barges, grabbed them, and broke them like they were graham crackers.

[cmsgop]

[43north]

There are no wells in Barrow. The nearest oilfield is about 200 miles to the SE. There is no refinery north of Fairbanks. There are no roads to Barrow. Fuel must be flown in (emergencies only) or barged in during the summer and stored.

Ergo, fuel is EXPEN$IVE in Barrow$$$ Same with food, building materials, etc., etc.

I've been to Barrow. If the universe has an anus, its in Barrow...

[Domestic Church]

Tsunamis seems to be a popular word these days....


http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Yale_Group_To_Study_Atmospheric_Tsunamis.html

[Eska]

You should see ice out on the upper Yukon. Down the village, the indians have a tripod set about 50 yards out on the river. They have fishin line from tripod stretched to a battery clock on post along shore. Everyone picks date and time, buck a shot. When river lets loose, fishin line jerks battery out of clock and everyone knows who won the pot.

Chunks of ice size of trucks & cabins tumblin over and over in a huge mass of water, ice, and whatever is in its way. Usually, it all backs up downriver a few miles then river & ice come up about 50 feet, sometimes ice gets pushed over the road and floods the village cabins. The natives pretty much take it in stride and party atmosphere for a few days. Usually by then, everyone can't wait for spring to arrive anyway. Been minus 50 something for lows last week or so, wish iceout was tomorrow.

[EastIdaho]

Isn't Barrow the end of the road? I heard Tom Bodett left there and moved to New England somewhere.

[Vince Ferrer]

Then they destroy natural ice formations.

And probably pristine old growth ice too.