While ice fishing is still going on in some parts of Minnesota, other parts are having what looks like glacier advance in the back yards that is damaging some homes.
As for climate change worries, you can always figure out ways to keep cool, but getting out of the way of an advancing glacier is no easy task as this video shows. Watch this video of what happens in an “ice out” from the nearby lake Mille Lacs, you can actually watch the ice advance. In a matter of minutes the wind pushes the ice about 15 feet from the shore to the doors and windows of lakeside homes.
While this isn’t the same mechanism as ice-age type glaciation, it is fascinating to watch.
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I hadn’t seen that phenomenon before. The same person put up the “after-math.” (My guess was that she’s blond, but it turns out these were the first videos she recorded on her phone). See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqo49arRlGw
Glacier seems like the wrong word. Ice tsunami seems better, though there’s no earthquake involved, just wind blowing old ice around.
Note – this is also covered in http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/11/still-waiting-for-spring-in-minnesota/
somebody tell me about that train sound.
Shown on NBC’s “Today” show too … that’s wild …
Gives new meaning to the term “fast ice”
The wind moves the ice on tho land. Scarry becaus of the sound wicth cane be like a train or a plane passing by. But as you can see its also a nice way tho demolish some properties. And this is only a small thing. In Holland the ice can come meters hight and that cane be massif peaces also.
I don’t know Ric; it was ‘chewing’ up anything in it’s path; I think that dark area near the tree at the 00:08 point is dirt/soil being tilled up. The ‘effect’ at the head end looks to be the same as a glacier, the ‘production’ back end process being different (i.e. the ‘cold flow’ of snow/precip turning into a frozen river of ice eventually and generally ’emptying’ into a waterway, lake or ocean). “Ice Heaves” is what the vid on YouTube is calling it.
Nature ‘taking back over’ in any case (if only briefly!)
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Reblogged this on Combyne's Weblog and commented:
interesting supposition here
I was in Lake Elmo, Minnesota (East of Saint Paul) yesterday. The wind was fierce, and falling ice particles were rattling on the brim of my hat. Had to have come from the clouds, the previous snow had finally melted. Getting sick of this Global Warming stuff.
There have been years when the ice on Mille Lacs has pushed right over Highway 169 on the west/south sides or 18 on the north and east. We had 20-30 MPH winds yesterday (which was also the annual fishing opener) so I wasn’t surprised to see the ice pushed off. I feel bad for all of those cabin owners though.
Remember to build your vacation home bulwark against the advancing ‘glacier’. Like the barrier island’s mega-McMansions hurricane barriers; to be rebuilt with YOUR tax-insurance monies.
Yes, it´s very fascinating indeed!
Mother Nature makes a house call and they do the only sensible thing – adapting by removing fragile stuff!
This is the essence of science – observation without fictional simulation.
This also shows one of several “problems” with living near by water …
Cool
That was one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen! So quick and so relentless.
Actually this is quite normal near the end of a good winter, wich just happens to be half way May this year.
…not the beginning of glaciation, this is what Global bloody Warming looks like – the ice is rotten!
Seeing the force of this little tongue of ice it’s no surprise that glaciers could dig many of today’s valleys into the surface.
Looks like flowing lava, slow but relentless.
This can happen on the shores of any large lake, when high winds shove the ice. I’ve seen video of a neighborhood around Buffalo getting damaged, in the dead of winter, and a storage facility on the coast of the Arctic Ocean getting crunched by ice as well. In the summer you can sometimes see the damage to brush and trees, as you walk a large lakes shores.
Rivers can do some amazing things with ice as well, creating dams and flooding upstream areas until the dam breaks, whereupon a flood filled with ice rushes down stream. Then, wandering the river’s banks during the balmy days of summer, you can puzzle over the gashes on trees limbs high above your head.
It is interesting to see where the old-timers built, in areas near water. Perhaps they were wiser, or perhaps the houses built by the foolish are simply gone.
Not many built atop hills, here in New England, despite the beautiful views. Perhaps they knew about the highest winds during hurricanes, and heating costs during the winter. However I do know of two very old, very solid farmhouses, with amazing views. So perhaps there is something impractical in mankind, which simply loves a view.
Happy Mother’s Day, everyone.
Oh no! Not the “1970’s ice age cometh” scare, again! Thank crunchie I sold my cold “climate” gear and migrated to where “weather” is warmer… Oh no, I am going to burn in Australia!!!! Save me! Save me save me ye olde cahbon proice…
During the little ice age in Europe the rate of glacial advance was apparently something that had to be seen to be believed. For example in Chamonix (below Mt Blanc in France) the main galcier came right out across the fields and orchards and ploughed them up, moving at a rate of feet per day (this is at an altitude of a little over 3,000 ft by the way). It was so bad the locals begged the bishop of Geneva to travlel up and see if he could make it stop.
Ice floes also occurred to the northwest, in Manitoba, on the shores of Dauphin Lake: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Ice-destroys-several-homes-along-Da-207043001.html
These are massive, completely destroying 12 homes.
It’s definitely interesting (for those not living there) and scary (for those living there) phenomenon but it has nothing to do with glaciation at all. It shouldn’t also be very hard to prevent happening again (although it might involve ruining their lakeside yard). But it’s true that if real glaciation had to happen, even though the glacier would advance considerably slower, there would be no stopping it for people living in its path, as well as in this example.
In Nenana also still no breakup:
http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/
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Great video. The ice moves like a lava flow.
Not having insurance/being able to buy any takes care of unsound building areas. But socializing risk-taking will make those more prudent pay for the foolishness of those who set up shop in dangerous places. Of course those lots are then more expensive because they’re “more scenic”, making it yet another transfer of wealth from the smart and cautious to the reckless and debt rich.