Lakes around here freeze over solid on the surface. Lakes in more temperate places just stay liquid. It’s the ones trying to be in-between that get weird.
Be sure to have the sound on. Lakes aren’t supposed to sound like that!
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Reminds me of the subduction zone drawings from geology class. Pretty and creepy. I can imagine both the music from Chariots of Fire and Psycho for this one.
We had that one time in Madison on Lake Mendota. We spent hours at the end of Picnic Point drinking beer and watching the ice pile up on shore. Another time was when the lake froze, then a wind came up and broke up the ice into billions of little wind chimes. The bells came from everywhere. Winter can be so cool!
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I grew up in this area which gets ice stacking of much larger blocks, driven by tides. Similar concept, but slower and larger scale.
I have the sudden urge to drop a quarter on it and hope it pushes 5 more off.
I don’t remember this sound, despite years on the shore of Lake Erie. I remember booming sounds like distant thunder as plates of ice broke apart, and warnings of “needle ice” (I have since heard it called “candle ice”) that sounds like the result of the action in this video, where apparently thick ice is really a collection of badly-stacked columns of crystals, and a misplaced step means they won’t find you until March.
I wonder if a eons long time lapse of two continents colliding looks anything like this.
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That is pretty cool. Even though I grew up in Fredericton, and have traveled around the Maritimes, I’ve never been around Minas Basin in the winter months, and never thought about the interaction of the high tides and winter ice in the area.
Are you kidding? It sounds beautiful to my ears.
I’m feeling rather chilly all of a sudden….
I wonder if that’s what it looks like when plates come together? Although, faster, and less restricted, obviously.
That’S hauntingly beautiful!
1:20 : I can see my Fortress of Solitude from here.
How are you supposed to play hockey on that?
Oooh, that’s happened here, it’s so beautiful!
Gordon Lightfoot did not prepare me for this part of Lake Superior. Storms, sinking iron ships, yes but narry a peep about freakishly loud breaking ice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
It looks really interesting, but I’m pretty sure a full day of that would drive me completely nuts. This lasts over a month, doesn’t it? Yeah, I’d have to move.
Travis@7: I forgot there was a commentator here who actually knew the area! Drive through Moncton sometime in the late winter to see it. I also don’t recall being in the Minas basin; I was more of a Chignecto type (Alma, Moncton, Sackville, Joggins…).
I have questions I can’t answer, because I immediately began to think about other icy bodies in the solar system. What about someplace like Titan? Would there be something similar? What would it sound like in that atmosphere?
For that matter, what does anything sound like on Mars where we actually have rovers? Could someone please put a microphone on one of these things.
That was so beautiful!
I used to stand for hours on a foot bridge over the North Saskatchewan River and watch the ice break up and slid off towards Hudson’s Bay. It was mesmerising and had a hissing sound unlike anything else. Days like the one in the video where the wind is blowing and you stand there in awe of the chill beauty, warm in your clothes until you aren’t any more, were the best. It was peaceful, and humbling, and joyous in a way that I never feel in summer.
Damn, but I do miss winter.
Mind you, after seven years in Australia I’m so weak that the mildest of wind-chill would do me in…
Wind-driven ice is a wonderful thing. It’s even more nifty when the lake is only a couple inches deep and peppered with erratic rocks, and is dry most of the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
For me, I think the best thing about that whole article is learning that “ice shove” is a technical term. Here I figured it was a band name.
Speaking of ice, winter in Pennsylvania left a surreal wonderland earlier this week.
Fortunately, repairs for the water main break have since been reported completed.
How do you get a near-drowned moose out of a frozen lake?
Fortunately, for the moose from Spokane there was a happy ending!
And an ostrich got caught in icy water in Pennsylvania this month and was rescued.
Another happy ending!