Posted on 05/15/2013 8:56:12 AM PDT by neverdem
IT'S A SCENE that could be from a '70s horror movie: A wave of ice crystals relentlessly marching towards homes in Minnesota in the United States.
The massive ice floes have also destroyed 12 homes and damaged another 15 in Canada, which boarders Minnesota.
According to emergency officials, a total of seven homes in Ochre Breach were "literally crushed" by the ice that rose up within minutes pushed by strong winds, Winnepeg Free Press reports.
A resident caught footage of a wave of ice that creeped off another lake in Minnesota - as foam froze and was pushed ashore by strong, icy winds.
Billions of needles of ice seemingly crawl up out of the lake and swarm over the shoreline...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Mini-ice age?
It was the WIND
The video is absolutely creepy!!
Boarders?
Don’t live in either of those places unless you expect such a thing.
Don’t build near shorelines or on earthquake faults! Seriously there must be ways to divert ice heaves, given foresight.
A shovel?
At the very least!
ice that creeped off...
How about using crept? Apparently the writer didn’t have the pleasure of having the same English teacher as I.
I was on the U of Mn campus yesterday and there is still a pile of snow reaching up to the second level of a parking ramp there. (even though it got up to 98 yesterday here).
repel boarders..
OMG...GLOBAL WARMING COULD HAVE SAVED THESE HOMES! I’m going out to buy an SUV now, and I just farted.
Hey, everyone has to do their part.
People were out taking nice videos, but they could have been trying to minimize damage by moving things out of the path of glass doors, etc.
It’s always been an issue on large open water lakes like mille lacs.
People who live there don’t think it’s such a big deal. Happens frequently on a smaller scale. This is unusual because it’s so late in the season. Mother Day weekend kicks off the Minnesota boating season.
The end is near! We’re DOOMED! We’re all gonna die! We all burn! /s
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