Ice charging into home in Lake Mille Lacs

[question everything]

and was picked by ABC News

http://kstp.com/news/stories/S3030105.shtml?cat=1

crazy!

[Ilsa]

1. This is a new concept for me.

I had to read the link to understand what this is.
Yikes! That's scary!

[Politicalboi]

2. Wow!

The explanation the woman gave about the wind is also crazy. They are outside in clothes that aren't for temps that cold. Tomorrows Faux News Headline: Global Warming a HOAX! Frozen Tsunami. And those women just standing there as the ice gets taller. I like how they say the house is stopping the ice. That house may only be good for ice hole fishing soon.

[mindem]

3. This spring is just nuts.

One of my music students told me it snowed in Bemidji this morning - to the point his lawn was a little white. I performed for the fishing opener and it was windy and pretty much crappy. Dayton had to river fish instead of going out on the lakes.

[kona808]

4. It's what happens when people build their cabins and home on the lakeshore

They want nice flat lawns down to a sandy beach so they remove the pressure ridge that has built up over many years of ice movement and the result can be an ice flow in the living room.

Many years HWY 169 on the South side of Lake Mille Lacs will be closed for days because of the shifting ice.

[riverwalker]

5. wow

[riverwalker]

6. part two of the video, the aftermath

[longship]

7. How many lakes is Lake Mille Lacs?

Is it one? A thousand? How many exactly is it?

I get confused when it gets late.

[Thor_MN]

10. Just one, but it is big.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=46.233053,-93.601456&spn=0.354328,0.812302&t=m&z=11

It's the second or third largest lake within the State. Lake Superior, of course, is much bigger, but not completely within State boundaries.

The "Thousand Lakes" is a reference to the size, not the quantity.

The thing that was interesting to me was the difference between local and national news. I saw it on the local news and they covered it in a manner of fact way. The the national news, OMG!!! FROZEN TSUNAMI!!! ICE!!!!

Fact is, you get high winds near ice out and it's going to pile up on the shore. I grew up on the North Shore of Lake Superior and have seen piles of ice 20 feet tall. If there were areas with a flat lawn leading to the lake (there are none on the North Shore) the ice is going to move onshore.

[kickysnana]

8. I was just going to post this. Thanks. "Ice slow motion Tsunami"n/t

[lunasun]

9. Been fishing rhere and its nce but would not want a frozen walleye in my window