[neverdem]

Please check the second link in comment# 6, i.e. Creeping ice destroys homes in Manitoba, Canada and Minnesota, US. Is that common up your way?

[Squawk 8888]

Is that common up your way?

I've heard about the phenomenon but never witnessed it. Here in Toronto the lake rarely freezes, but I've seen ice pile up around some of the rivers every spring. That is driven by the water flow, though, not by wind the way it happened in the Midwest.