Huge Ice Sheet Crushes Docks

  • Steve Plantz
    SE MN
    Posts: 12240
    April 5, 2011 at 4:07 pm #1271632

    Huge ice chunk floating down river in front of Wabasha, MN 4-2-11

    Wade Boardman
    Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 4453
    April 5, 2011 at 4:13 pm #954221

    At least the home owners have video for the INS company. That sucks.

    mike-west
    Amery, WI
    Posts: 1422
    April 5, 2011 at 4:13 pm #954223

    Wow, awesome video! Would be cool to have had the oppertunity to watch as it was happening. Thanks for sharing.
    Those poor docks and lifts (not to mention trees), they don’t stand a chance

    Trent W
    Chatfield, MN
    Posts: 186
    April 5, 2011 at 4:13 pm #954224

    That’s a pretty cool video. I would not want to be caught out in a boat when that chunk of ice came by.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    April 5, 2011 at 4:21 pm #954230

    Those docks didn’t stand a chance.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    April 5, 2011 at 4:25 pm #954233

    Now that explains why the pontoon AND dock was in the backwaters of the Mississippi a couple of years ago!

    sandmannd
    Posts: 928
    April 5, 2011 at 4:26 pm #954235

    Not good. That shows the true power of mother nature.

    ted-merdan
    Posts: 1036
    April 5, 2011 at 4:28 pm #954237

    That’s exactly why we pull out our docks and lifts in our pool of the river.

    -ted

    hop307
    Northern Todd County
    Posts: 609
    April 5, 2011 at 4:37 pm #954241

    Quote:

    Not good. That shows the true power of mother nature.

    Thats exactly what I was thinking.

    Ben Garver
    Hickman, Nebraska
    Posts: 3149
    April 5, 2011 at 4:53 pm #954245

    Some of those home owners will think “Who the heck would steal our entire dock?”

    fireline
    Rochester
    Posts: 813
    April 5, 2011 at 5:09 pm #954250

    Someones boat will catch that under water deck !Not good .

    phigs
    Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 1046
    April 5, 2011 at 5:35 pm #954255

    Quote:

    Now that explains why the pontoon AND dock was in the backwaters of the Mississippi a couple of years ago!

    i watched someone tow the pontoon out of there…. dock was missing around that time too.

    walleyebuster5
    Central MN
    Posts: 3916
    April 5, 2011 at 7:11 pm #954282

    That’s some powerful stuff.

    Dumb question. But why would docks be in or that close to the water this time of year? I only ask because I’m sure there’s a reason.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    April 5, 2011 at 7:30 pm #954292

    I would bet they where pulled last fall to what was thought a safe distance from the river.

    smackem
    Iowa Marshall Co
    Posts: 956
    April 5, 2011 at 8:12 pm #954302

    Quote:

    Someones boat will catch that under water deck !Not good .

    Will need to mark that with my SI

    Jake_A
    Posts: 569
    April 5, 2011 at 8:37 pm #954308

    Shoulda jumped on with the strikemaster in hand and gotten in some late ice fishing

    Kidding aside, it would suck to be the owner of those docks

    Ingy
    Posts: 135
    April 5, 2011 at 9:28 pm #954325

    “It’s not scary, It’s just ice”

    Yeah, ice that is crushing everything in front of it!

    coreybaldwin
    Posts: 8
    April 5, 2011 at 9:59 pm #954338

    That was really interesting thank you for sharing that. I have never seen anything like that before in me life. WOW

    Chad Thompson
    2 hours from Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Posts: 325
    April 5, 2011 at 10:27 pm #954345

    That’s power!

    JimChellevold
    Wi, Crawford Cty
    Posts: 108
    April 6, 2011 at 12:15 am #954371

    Wow that was a huge ice chunk smashing those docks like they were nothing

    matt-p
    White Bear Lake, MN
    Posts: 643
    April 6, 2011 at 1:00 am #954392

    Thats a tough break.. Those things were moving!!

    2iceman
    Gem Lake, Minnesota
    Posts: 98
    April 6, 2011 at 1:34 am #954400

    Awewsome video, I knew there was a reason I did not go fishing that day.

    walleyehunter01
    west central wisconsin
    Posts: 58
    April 6, 2011 at 3:22 am #954418

    that explains where that foot thick chunk of ice i hit on p5 saturday with my fiberglass boat came from

    cdm
    Oronoco, SE. MN.
    Posts: 771
    April 6, 2011 at 11:39 am #954458

    Could it be a after shock from the Japanese tsunami

    katmando
    Ramsey,MN pool 2, St.croix river
    Posts: 691
    April 7, 2011 at 4:33 am #954767

    thats some awesome power, wish i was there in person to watch it.

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