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Ice wall crushes homes in Manitoba
- Published_at:2013-05-11
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:newnewsinworld
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- description: OCHRE BEACH, Man. — One minute, cottage owners on the southern shore of Manitoba's Dauphin Lake were cooking on their barbecues, admiring the views across the still-frozen ice. The next minute, that ice was rumbling up the shore like a giant nine-metre-high bulldozer, tearing apart their decks, then slicing through some homes and tipping others on their sides. "The whole thing happened in about ten minutes," said Clayton Watts, the deputy reeve of the Rural Municipality of Ochre River. "We had people barbecueing on their decks. They turned around to go inside to get something, they came back out and their decks were ripping apart," he added. "It was like a freight train coming through, they say." Watts said strong winds with gusts up to 90 kilometres per hour forced the ice onto the shore at Ochre Beach, one of a couple of beaches that make up the summer community that's about 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. More than two dozen structures were damaged and about a dozen of those were completely destroyed, he said. There were no reports of injuries. Watts said people were trying to salvage what they could on Saturday. "They're in, whether it be with shovels and rakes and wheelbarrows, they're trying to get ice out of the houses and we've got heavy equipment in trying to remove all of the ice from the front of the cabin so it doesn't cave back in on them," Watts said. 'Like a freight train': Manitoba homes crushed as nine-metre-high wall of ice slams into them Ice wall crushes homes in Manitoba Wall of ice destroys homes in Manitoba community Ice wall tears Manitoba homes and cottages apart Ice wall crushes,Manitoba,Ice wall crushes Manitoba,Manitoba ice crushes
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