Glacier attack in Minnesota. The cellphone video at the link is like something from The Chronicles of Narnia. Let it serve as a warning to anyone who thinks global warming is a bigger worry than the next ice age. (It gets really interesting 30 seconds in.)
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This also happened in Manitoba as well...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/05/10/mb-ochre-river-beach-ice-wave-homes.html
...so much for lake front property.
WTF?! The insurance guys says home insurance does not cover ice damage. That right there is why I hate insurance companies. Seems like they exclude anything that might actually happen.
I wonder if they don't consider this a form of flooding. Would flood insurance cover something like this?
It is fascinating because it is slow and and it is ice but it IS a flood. It is very simple. If this had been a warm time or a warm place it would have been a flood plain and simple. The fact that it is ice does not change that fact.
That's fascinating to watch, I just wish the dummy with the camera would shut up. Me? I'd be out there surfing on it.
That's why I don't turn up the volume on my computer when watching these things.
Neat! Although what's going on is nothing like an actual glacier attack of course!
Are you sure? I read a number of the comments and opinion was divided. A glacier might not move so fast, but I'm thinking the method is the same: something is pushing the ice, it moves, and at the front pieces are constantly breaking off.
When I was a little kid, about three or four, I remember a flood that came in a swept through our house, while I lived in Los Gatos, CA. This was way back in the late fifties and I'm still scared of the effects of rushing water to this day. If this is what the next ice age will look like, well it's frightening. This video was chilling and fascinating at the same time.
I had no idea ice could move that fast.
WOW!! That looks like globull warming to me!! :roll:
Fascinating.
I love the way she starts out laughing then starts to worry she's in a horror movie and tells her son to get back.
It sort of reminded me of the origional version of "The Blob".