ice tsunami

Posted on: Fri, 01/10/2014 - 19:28 By: Tom Swiss

This footage from Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota is nuts, like something out of an SF movie:

(Some NFSW language, but who can blame her?)

It is, of course, not a tsunami but an wind-driven "ice shove". But "ice tsunami" will do for an informal description.

CNN reports that a similar situation on Dauphin Lake in Manitoba destroyed several homes.