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ICE TSUNAMI DESTROYS LAKESHORE HOUSES IN CANADA

 

 

A nine-meter high wall of ice pushed by strong winds across the lake slammed onto the shore destroying a dozen houses and severely damaging many others.

 

National Post:  One minute, cottage owners on the southern shore of Manitoba’s Dauphin Lake were cooking on their barbecues, admiring the views across the still-frozen ice.  The next minute, that ice was rumbling up the shore like a giant nine-metre-high bulldozer, tearing apart their decks, then slicing through some homes and tipping others on their sides.

 

“The whole thing happened in about ten minutes,” said Clayton Watts, the deputy reeve of the Rural Municipality of Ochre River.  We had people barbecueing on their decks. They turned around to go inside to get something, they came back out and their decks were ripping apart,” he added. “It was like a freight train coming through, they say.”

More information and pictures: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/11/owners-pick-through-remains-of-manitoba-homes-crushed-by-9-metre-high-wall-of-ice/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323412/Massive-wall-ice-rises-lake-destroys-dozen-homes-residents-watch-helplessly-shore.html

Dramatic picture here: http://io9.com/freak-ice-tsunami-crunches-homes-in-canada-504411441



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