Wednesday - March 11, 2009
More Damn Global Warming
Strong winds push ice into beachfront homes along Saginaw Bay
Michigan - Mountains of ice crept up the beach and over sea walls of Linwood homes early Monday morning. The ice made its way into backyards, broke windows and spilled inside homes on the shoreline.
Tim Boutell said he and his wife heard the screech of “metal on metal,” and then screamed themselves Sunday night as walls of ice pushed toward their Kawkawlin Township home along Saginaw Bay.“About 9 p.m. my wife, Beth, heard some noise and I kind of disregarded it until she went downstairs to peek outside, and she obviously screamed. And then I looked out and saw the ice piled up and moving toward the house,” said Tim Boutell, 50, owner of one of about 36 Bay County homes evacuated due to invading ice.
Boutell said he told his daughters, who were watching TV, to get up, get a bag and get out.
“Then (we) went down knocking on the doors of a few older folks who lived out here,” Tim Boutell said. “We got them out, and then got out.”
Residents evacuated about 36 homes near the shore of Saginaw Bay on Sunday night as wind-driven ice floes crushed into houses, according to police.
Ice had entered as far as 12 feet inside some of the homes, according to troopers at the Michigan State Police post at Bay City. Troopers didn’t report any injuries.
Dispatchers sent police to the scene in Kawkawlin Township along Linwood Beach Road, near Boutell Road, at 10:30 p.m. after residents along Linwood, Killarney and Brissette beaches began calling.
As residents began evacuated their homes, state police troopers were assisted by the Kawkawlin Township Fire Department and workers from Consumers Energy, who turned off gas to some houses. Residents were advised to shut off the main power to their homes.
Strong, persistent northeast winds on Sunday caused the ice damage. National Weather Service meteorologists said winds came from the northeast - from 15 to 32 mph - for 11 consecutive hours, from 1 p.m. Sunday to midnight.
The ice was moving about 20 feet every half hour and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.
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“It looked like glaciers coming in,”
CNN has a video report.
While this is uncommon, it has happened at least twice before, once around 1970 and once in 1946.
Posted by Drew458
on 03/11/2009 at 04:42 PM
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