Feb
It’s so cold now Niagara Falls freezes over
Niagara Falls frozen in 1909
Niagara Falls frozen in 1934
We now see real-world evidence that our planet is facing danger more from cooling than warming. Lucky photographers have been bearing the brutal cold to take spectacular photos of a truly rare event: Niagara Falls freezing over.
The winter of 2009/10 has now joined those years of 1848, 1909, 1936, 1938 and 1949 when the American Falls water flow was reduced to such an extent that it froze over.
Urban Legends’ website tells us that:
“The installation of the ice boom at the mouth of Lake Erie, the building of the International water control dam (which regulates water flow) and milder winters have all but eliminated the possibility of the American Falls ever completely freezing over in modern times.”
So much for those ‘milder winters!’
From these photos we can determine that then, just as now, the falls are not entirely frozen over, with several small spouts of water visible gushing out from beneath the crust of ice crystals, more towards the Canadian side.
Massive stalactites of ice can be seen hanging as if suspended in a moment of time. The best side to view this rarity is not over the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the border but on the shallower American Falls.
It is said that a layer of ice has been known to form across the waters that can be up to eighty feet thick, while 40 feet is not uncommon. However, visitors are advised to keep off the thick slab of ice because of the obvious perils, as warned in ‘Environment Graffiti’ website.
Tragically, in 1912, an ice bridge broke apart as several people were crossing it, sending three to their deaths as the frozen platform on which they stood plunged them into oblivion.
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See!! even more proof that driving around in a big S.U.V. will warm the earth and cause more snow!!……….wait a minute, they didn’t have big S.U.V.’s back then. And I don’t think warm weather causes snow like they are saying now…but some people are stupid and will go along with it.
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