|
Post by imec on Mar 27, 2010 16:16:49 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2010 16:19:56 GMT
Wow -- dramatic and probably dangerous, right? Hey, next time you hear the eerie ice sounds, can you stick the camera out the window and use video to capture the sound? I am really curious.
|
|
|
Post by imec on Mar 27, 2010 16:27:59 GMT
Yes I'll try to remember - it's lots of odd sounding cracks - sometimes real loud. One night after a jam was created I woke up to a very loud roaring sound - the combination of the ice grinding and the water rushing past it sounded like a couple of freight trains having a race behind my house.
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2010 16:37:57 GMT
Scary! It looks as though the river is pretty close to the houses in the photos. Will it rise more as it thaws upstream?
|
|
|
Post by imec on Mar 27, 2010 16:40:54 GMT
Hope not - it's only about 40 ft from my back deck now.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 17:06:48 GMT
I've seen some really strange scenes like that when it all starts to jam and break up and then it refreezes -- sometimes more than once.
|
|
|
Post by auntieannie on Mar 27, 2010 20:08:16 GMT
fab! I immediately got eerie ice sounds in my mind, from experience of trekking by glaciers in the Swiss Alps. Nature is wonderful, if sometimes a little scary.
|
|
|
Post by Jazz on Mar 27, 2010 20:40:24 GMT
Primal and beautiful, imec! 40 feet from your home is not very far!
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 21:14:32 GMT
My husband told me that when he lived in Alaska,that the sound of the ice cracking was dramatic,sometimes it sounded like loud popping guns going off,other times indescribable. He also described how the large pieces of the cracked ice looked under the light of a full moon and how ethereal and magical it was. So close to one's home,all that water,frightens me.(I have flooded so, one never forgets...) Beautiful pics.
|
|
|
Post by imec on Mar 27, 2010 23:30:44 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 23:34:23 GMT
Amazing, imec. What a view!
|
|
|
Post by spindrift on Mar 27, 2010 23:40:23 GMT
Imec...I've never a river moving with breaking ice and I find it's quite scary. It's moving real fast too. Where is the ice going to? I suppose it gradually melts. How long does the melting process take? A week....or more?
|
|
|
Post by imec on Mar 27, 2010 23:45:37 GMT
Well, the process started a couple of weeks ago and will likely continue for a few more days - maybe a week - depends on the weather. The ice is just being carried by the current along the normal path of the river. Some will be deposited along the bank (my yard is full of it at the moment), some further jams will occur, some will make it as far as Lake Winnipeg, and eventually it all melts.
|
|
|
Post by imec on Mar 27, 2010 23:47:02 GMT
And then it was gone (mostly)...
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2010 6:07:54 GMT
The power of all that ice and water is awe-inspiring. Seeing the branches being swirled and pulled under gives almost a sickening sense of the force. This was a great presentation.
(& your camera makes such crisp videos!)
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2010 8:45:58 GMT
Wow! I've never seen or heard anything like that. Does everything in your garden along the water's edge grow back normally every year?
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 10:25:02 GMT
The attack of the slush monster! And then people wonder where all that water came from when a place like Saint Louis floods.
|
|
|
Post by spindrift on Mar 28, 2010 11:35:08 GMT
The ice went so quickly...the sun is so powerful.
|
|
|
Post by gertie on Apr 2, 2010 19:38:09 GMT
Watching that ice really moving a long right by your house must be fascinating but I am afraid I would be quite nervous of it. Good that it doesn't last so very long.
|
|
|
Post by imec on Apr 2, 2010 22:28:26 GMT
Yes, it can be a bit unnerving - especially when large chunks of ice threaten to take down trees - the sound of a tree being pushed and shaken by the ice is a bit scary.
|
|
|
Post by cristina on Apr 3, 2010 0:23:19 GMT
imec, the river seems to be moving quite briskly. Does it always run that fast or does the ice breaking push it faster? Your pictures and videos are fascinating. I can't imagine what it must be like to wake up to the sounds.
I'm not sure how I would acclimate living that close to river, particularly a fast moving one. After moving to an area of the country where everyone has a swimming pool and hearing about the needless drownings of children, I tend to stress around unfenced bodies of water.
I know, I've been brainwashed.
|
|
|
Post by hwinpp on Apr 3, 2010 7:37:38 GMT
Jesus! Has it all disappeared already? That's a fast river!
|
|