we could see these big sheets of ice just coming at you. oh, my god! look! as the ice got closer to the buildings, we both kind of panicked. it s just pushing and pushing and pushing. oh, my god! their door s in. there was no way that this ice was stopping. may 11th, 2013, milax, minnesota. darla johnson and her husband are visiting darla s friend, nicole thompson, at a lakeside resort. it s unusually windy, and there s more ice on the lake than normal for this time of year. everybody was joking this year about how we would have an ice opener instead of a fishing opener for mother s day weekend. then they see something odd sheets of ice moving off the lake toward the houses. the first thing i thought when i saw it was, this is kind
the door s caving! look at that. it s going right through their [ bleep ] house! you need to call somebody. who do i call? most of the townhouses are vacation rentals, and no one else seems to be around. there was a door missing and half the wall was caved in, and there was ice entering the home. and it just kept moving. seven minutes after the ice tide began, it abruptly stops. in amazement, darla surveys the area, now a surreal landscape of ice shards. okay, so there is the aftermath of the ice heaves. i ve never heard of anything like, you know, ice just coming off a lake into people s homes. i ve never it was something i never expected. no one is injured, but there s damage to a neighbor s property.
quickly it happened because when we had first started recording, which was probably a minute and a half to two minutes before then, it was still a good ten feet from the house. there was nothing you could do to stop it. it it wouldn t have mattered what we tried. darla keeps recording. they re powerless to do anything but watch the icy onslaught. i was afraid that if you fell in between it while it was still moving that it could crush you. i mean, it was pretty big. there it goes. hitting that people s house. yeah, it s up against it. the ice wall appears to slow down. but in fact, the layers are simply piling higher, pressing into the homes. and then oh, my god! their door s in! nikki! it just busted through a door over here! all the way through!
the first thing i thought when i saw it was, this is kind of neat. i ve never seen anything like this before. darla starts recording the approaching tide of ice with her camera phone. it s pushing forward. this is crazy. look at this. it sounds like a train. it kept going sh, sh, sh, sh. it just kept breaking as it was moving. and then more would push, then more would break. it was cool. it looked like these big, diamond crystals. but then things take a dangerous turn. it was bringing up rocks and boulders and tearing out all the brushes and the hedges. oh, my god! nikki, look. the wall was ice was about 12 town homes wide. it just came in one big section. that s when i started thinking this thing might not stop, and it can cause a lot of damage.
we could see these big sheets of ice just coming at you. oh, my god! look! as the ice got close to the buildings, we both kind of panicked. it s just pushing and pushing and pushing. oh, my god! their door s in. there was no way that this ice was stopping. may 11th, 2013, milax, minnesota. darla johnson and her husband are visiting darla s friend, nicole thompson, at a lakeside resort. it s unusually windy, and there s more ice on the lake than normal for this time of year. everybody was joking this year about how we would have an ice opener instead of a fishing opener for mother s day weekend. then they see something odd sheets of ice moving off the lake toward the houses. the first thing i thought