Post date: May 12, 2013 9:28:51 PM
Aerial video released by a Canadian environmental agency shows a large mass of ice as it plows its way for miles across a frozen reservoir.
CODETTE RESERVOIR, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA (MAY 1, 2013) (CANADAWATER SECURITY HANDOUT) - Aerial video released online by a Canadian environmental agency shows a large mass of ice as it plowed its way for miles across a frozen reservoir on May 1.
The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency posted a YouTube video of the ice surge along the Codette Reservoir, saying the event was "something rarely seen". The agency said the ice surge was caused by ice melting for long stretches upstream along the Saskatchewan River.The video, taken during an aerial inspection of the river, shows the ice breaking up at the edges of the surge and piling up nearly ten feet (3 meters) in the air.
Other ice flows near the Canadian and U.S border have struck during May.
A massive wall of ice plowed through a dozen homes on the small Canadian lakeside community of Manitoba on Friday (May 10), and huge ice sheets threatened to destroy homes on Lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota the same day.