After the storm surge brought by super typhoon Yolanda in some part of Visayas specifically in Tacloban City destroying some of the vital infrastructures including the lives of many people, there’s a viral video on social media especially in Facebook alarmed netizens.
This video contained a very unusual happening for the fact that tsunami and even storm surge is common but this rare phenomenon called as “Ice Heave” or “Ice Surge.”
The video was published by Darla Johnson last May 11, 2013, showed a m(–foul word(s) removed–)ive sheets of ice destroyed lakefront homes in Canada and northern Minnesota.
Recent report said, no injuries were reported. This phenomenon showed an enormous sheet of ice that appears to be creeping forward, traveling about 15 feet to invade multi-story homes at Izatys Resort, the community bordering Mille lacs.
Shawn Devinny, a National Weather Service Meteorologist said 30 to 40 mile an hour wind pushed the water into the ice, driving it ashore, meanwhile the Department of Natural Resources says about 10 miles of shoreline are covered, with some reaching up to 30 feet high.
In this tragic incident there were 12 homes and cottages in Ochre Beach, which lies along Dauphin Lake in Manitoba, were destroyed by a similar phenomenon and 15 other structures were damaged.
Clayton Watts, the deputy reeve of the rural municipality of Ochre River, told the Free Press, “the creeping ice was several feet high, in many cases dwarfing some of the structures it affected, the storm lasted about 15 minutes.”
However homeowners said, they heard it before they saw it coming their decks, then it came right in their front windows with a matter of minutes, fortunately no one was hurt.
Here’s the video: