An Ice Tsunami??? [Archive]

lspencer534

01-10-2018, 12:27pm

WTF? Apparently they're real and quite destructive. Supposedly this happened in Minnesota last Fall:

ICE Tsunami destroys town house!! Mille Lacs Lake, MN - YouTube

Uncle Meat

01-10-2018, 12:31pm

Well that video was uploaded to YouTube in 2013 almost 5 years ago so if this happened in Minnesota last fall this isn't actual footage of it.

U.M.

tjfontaine

01-10-2018, 12:34pm

Yup - I am FROM MN ... Mille Lacs is one of our largest lakes - you can't see across it ... like a big inland ocean ... this happens every few years it is weird to watch ...

mrvette

01-10-2018, 2:18pm

Yup - I am FROM MN ... Mille Lacs is one of our largest lakes - you can't see across it ... like a big inland ocean ... this happens every few years it is weird to watch ...

~ 60 years ago, I remember a family trip up to lake Bemidji? Minn....founding headwaters of the MISSISSIPPI River......the lake was VERY large from my vantage point, my cousin and I tried to swim in it....Mid August.....

froze our nutz off, not been the same since......MOTHER DUCK!!!!!!

:dance::dance::lol:

Hoog

01-10-2018, 3:09pm

Well that video was uploaded to YouTube in 2013 almost 5 years ago so if this happened in Minnesota last fall this isn't actual footage of it.

U.M.
but...but...it just came across his FB feed today!

Dan Dlabay

01-10-2018, 4:43pm

Ice is water and water can destroy anything man builds.:cert:

Kerrmudgeon

01-10-2018, 5:47pm

It happens up here all the time in the spring mostly. Winds blow across the water just as the ice is breaking up after the winter or a thaw. The wind blows the water like normal but it also pushes the coastal ice up onto shore. I've seen vids that show the ice breaking down doors and knocking over sheds and stuff. It moves faster as the wind speed increases.

https://youtu.be/9Vk17advwC8

04 commemorative

01-11-2018, 9:14am

GET THE SALT !...........GET THE SALT !!!!!!!!!

GS Ragtop

01-11-2018, 10:38am

At our summer place in Michigan, if the wind direction is just right (wrong) during the spring thaw, the pilings out in front of our dock get snapped off like matchsticks.

They are beefy — 15-20” diameter logs, 40 feet long, driven 25 feet into the lake bottom. The relentless pressure of the ice either tips them over or snaps them off.

:leaving: