"Global Warming" - 30 foot Wall of ice destroys Manitoba homes, cottages.(Yahoo).A local state of emergency has been declared in a western Manitoba municipality after homes in Ochre Beach were destroyed and seriously damaged by a wave of lake ice.
Area officials told CBC News the wind pushed built-up ice off Dauphin Lake on Friday evening and caused it to pile up in the community, located on the lake's southern shore.
The piles of ice, which were more than nine metres tall in some cases, destroyed at least six homes and cottages, according to the Rural Municipality of Ochre River.Another 14 homes suffered extensive damage, with some structures knocked off their foundations.
No one was injured.
"They're devastated. Most of these people were hit hard during the flood," Clayton Watts, the deputy reeve of the RM of Ochre River, said Friday night.
"Most of them were back to the stage where they were back living in their homes again, and now this has happened. So they're pretty devastated right now."
Ochre Beach is about 300 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg and 20 kilometres east of Dauphin.Read the full story here.More here.
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