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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLong series of explosions used to break iced over river and prevent flooding. (VERY cool!)
This was just posted to YouTube - shows a long series of detonations on a river in China, set off to open the flow and prevent flooding as temps warm up.
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Long series of explosions used to break iced over river and prevent flooding. (VERY cool!) (Original Post)
A HERETIC I AM
Apr 2019
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applegrove
(118,682 posts)1. They used to do that on a river near my home when I was a kid. Now
They have a floating machine that literally climbs up on the ice and with its weight breaks the ice apart that way.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. I was wondering if we did that in this country.
With the pattern of colder winters, I would expect more need to do so.
GaYellowDawg
(4,447 posts)4. I would think that the machine is a lot better
for the fish.
applegrove
(118,682 posts)5. Yes. And I think it is faster.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)2. Wow, that's better than the Bellagio fountains
in Las Vegas. If there were colored lights behind it at night they could charge money to watch it.