Just in...and I hope no one was hurt in this freak 'accident' of Mother Nature.
"A staggering tsunami of ice inundated two dozen lakeside homes in central Canada, where the unexpected disaster sent residents in a panic and left some houses completely crushed.
The extraordinary event lasted just 15 minutes Friday as families in Manitoba’s Ochre Beach, a rural community along Dauphin Lake, sat down for dinner or watched TV.
“They heard it before they saw it (the ice) coming up their decks,” local official Clayton Watts told the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday. “Then it came right in their front windows. It was just a matter of minutes.”
The booming noise — like a freight train — alerted many people and gave them enough time to safely evacuate, Watts added.
“Fortunately, no one was hurt,” he said. “We were very lucky.”
Six homes were completely wrecked while another 14 suffered various damages, according to CBC News.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...anadian-homes-article-1.1341923#ixzz2TDwpi46e
The extraordinary event lasted just 15 minutes Friday as families in Manitoba’s Ochre Beach, a rural community along Dauphin Lake, sat down for dinner or watched TV.
“They heard it before they saw it (the ice) coming up their decks,” local official Clayton Watts told the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday. “Then it came right in their front windows. It was just a matter of minutes.”
The booming noise — like a freight train — alerted many people and gave them enough time to safely evacuate, Watts added.
“Fortunately, no one was hurt,” he said. “We were very lucky.”
Six homes were completely wrecked while another 14 suffered various damages, according to CBC News.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...anadian-homes-article-1.1341923#ixzz2TDwpi46e
A living room became an ice box in one home along Dauphin Lake in Ochre Beach, Canada, on Friday.
Meanwhile in Minnesota..."Massive sheets of moving ice have damaged or destroyed lakefront homes in northern Minnesota. No injuries were reported.
In Minnesota, video of the weather phenomenon shows an enormous sheet of ice that appears to be creeping forward, traveling about 15 feet to invade some multi-story homes at Izatys Resort, the community bordering Mille Lacs. The ice is seen pushing up against some homes.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Shawn Devinny said 30 to 40 mile an hour winds pushed the water into the ice, driving it ashore. He says the winds were lighter Sunday and the shoreline got a reprieve. The Department of Natural Resources says about 10 miles of shoreline are covered, with some reaching up to 30 feet high.
On Friday, 12 homes and cottages in Ochre Beach, which lies along Dauphin Lake in Manitoba, were destroyed by a similar phenomenon, the Winnipeg Free Press reported. Fifteen other structures were damaged.
A state of emergency reportedly was declared in the community.
The creeping ice was several feet high, in many cases dwarfing some of the structures it affected. The storm lasted about 15 minutes, Clayton Watts, the deputy reeve of the rural municipality of Ochre River, told the Free Press.
"They (homeowners) heard it before they saw it (the ice) coming up their decks," Watts told the newspaper. "Then it came right in their front windows. It was just a matter of minutes. Fortunately, no one was hurt. We were very lucky."
Read More: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/ice-tsunamis-damage-lakefront-homes-minn-canada-121415454.html
"A Tsunami of Ice can never be just a wave...". Karen Marie Moning
Meanwhile in Minnesota..."Massive sheets of moving ice have damaged or destroyed lakefront homes in northern Minnesota. No injuries were reported.
In Minnesota, video of the weather phenomenon shows an enormous sheet of ice that appears to be creeping forward, traveling about 15 feet to invade some multi-story homes at Izatys Resort, the community bordering Mille Lacs. The ice is seen pushing up against some homes.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Shawn Devinny said 30 to 40 mile an hour winds pushed the water into the ice, driving it ashore. He says the winds were lighter Sunday and the shoreline got a reprieve. The Department of Natural Resources says about 10 miles of shoreline are covered, with some reaching up to 30 feet high.
On Friday, 12 homes and cottages in Ochre Beach, which lies along Dauphin Lake in Manitoba, were destroyed by a similar phenomenon, the Winnipeg Free Press reported. Fifteen other structures were damaged.
A state of emergency reportedly was declared in the community.
The creeping ice was several feet high, in many cases dwarfing some of the structures it affected. The storm lasted about 15 minutes, Clayton Watts, the deputy reeve of the rural municipality of Ochre River, told the Free Press.
"They (homeowners) heard it before they saw it (the ice) coming up their decks," Watts told the newspaper. "Then it came right in their front windows. It was just a matter of minutes. Fortunately, no one was hurt. We were very lucky."
Read More: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/ice-tsunamis-damage-lakefront-homes-minn-canada-121415454.html
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