More Crazy Ice Action is Happening on Lake Michigan [WATCH]
Last week it was video proof of semi-creepy
Have you ever seen anything like that on a body of water before?!?
Of course I had to know how huge ice boulders like that form, and it s pretty much exactly how I was thinking. Here s the explanation from
Similar to building a snowman, Lake Michigan’s waves did all this work this weekend to make these boulders from ice sheets and the slushy snow we had. As the waves breaks off pieces of the ice sheets along the shore, the chunks fall off into the water. The waves then roll these ice chunks over and over again smoothing and shaping them into spheres.
what s to come. here in kankakee county, illinois, there is a serious concern about bridges. this is the warner bridge that spans the kankakee river. it s an important structure because the closest other bridge to here is about a 30-minute drive away. but you can walk in the middle of it with no cars. it s been shut down, engineers are very concerned about its integrity. take a look over here at river. it looks like the ice age is returned. the ice is getting so high that county engineers say it could em peril this bridge. when you see ice boulders like this in alaska or northern canada, it s often ice that s been around for e eons. these boulders have been here for a few days. have you ever seen anything like this before? nothing close. just bizarre. reporter: ice jams occur when large chunks of ice in rivers become trapped in shallow water or against structures like bridges. the national weather service says ice jams cause damage in many parts of the country each year, costin
explorers and the amazing photos they sent back during their time stranded on a sea of ice? turns out they were a sign of things to come. back home you can see the same kind of pictures on local lakes and rivers. because ice takes up more space than water you can see them hammering into bridge piers and homes. gary tuchman is looking like a south pole scientist. gary, where are you? what are you standing on? reporter: anderson, right now i m standing on top of the kankekee river about an hour south of chicago in the town of wilmington, illinois. just a few days ago this weekend this was iced over, flasite as flat as a hockey rink. beginning this week it started to thaw and melt. then it got ridiculously cold again. the wind chill right now is about 20 below zero. this has become a river of ice boulders. it looks like scenes from an arctic tundra. miles and miles of the normally
more space than water, you can see it hammering into bridges piers and river front homes. and gary tuchman, these days he s looking like a south pole scientist. where are you? what are you standing on? reporter: anderson, right now i m standing on top of the kankakee river, about an hour south of chicago in the town of wilmington, illinois. just a few days ago this weekend, this was iced over. as flat as a hockey rink. then it started to thaw and melt and it got ridiculously cold again. the windchill is about 20 below zero and this has become a river of ice boulders. it looks like scenes from an arctic tundra. seemingly frozen to a halt. it s called an ice jam. everyone we re talking to who lives around here says they ve never seen this river looking like this. during the summer, this is a popular place to go boating. but right now it looks like a glacier landscape in alaska.