A town entombed in ice

Professur

Professur

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BADGER, Nfld. (CP) - It could be months before residents driven from their homes by flood waters will be able to return to this ice-encrusted town in central Newfoundland.

Temperatures hovering around -20 C for the past several days have turned the water to ice, encasing cars, snowmobiles and much of the town. "The water is up to and over the roofs of cars, up to window ledges," Walwin Blackmore, mayor of neighbouring Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld., said Monday. "Ski-Doos and trucks are frozen in solid."

As bad as the situation is in Badger, it could get worse.

Another ice jam, this one up river from the one that caused the flooding, could let go at any minute, causing more devastation in the town.

"The emergency isn't over," an official with the Emergency Measures Organization said. If the ice jam lets go, "the water will run into this town as fast as you can run away from it," he said
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Damn, that would suck. We had some pretty bad flooding here in MO 10 years ago, I can't imagine it freezing after it flooded.
 
That would suck badly. lol. I can't help it, but it is funny. I mean, picture it in your mind...
 
Having been frozen outta my house by the ice storm, I don't see the humour, Jer. Enlighten me, please. What part of people having their lives ripped from under them tickles your funny bone?
 
What part of people having their lives ripped from under them tickles your funny bone?
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None. But, having never BEEN in a situation like that, it is hard, very hard for me to imagine even a few inches of water frozen solid.
 
Sorry, but I'm with Prof on this one, I knew too many people that were removed from their lives for a couple weeks, only to come back and find their belongings soaked and often ruined, to have them flooded and frozen, these people have almost surely lost everything they've worked their lives for.
 
I lost just about everything I owned in a flood in 1986. It's devastating. We did manage to save a few things....it doesn't sound like these people will be able to save anything.
Jerrek, you need help.:(
 
That really sucks. :( I'm so glad I live on a hill above the flood plain here. I'm always afraid that the seawall will go and we'll be flooded here again like in 1956. The flooding in some areas of England has been pretty bad.
 
A serious flood usually spells total loss, whether it freezes or not. Hell, even in house fires, the water used to kill the fire usually does more damage than the fire itself.
 
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