Burst Pipe in Beijing Turns a Garden into an Ice Sculpture
Early one December morning in 2014, a water pipe burst beside the Tian Qiao Art Building in Beijing’s Xicheng district. Water sprayed in ev...
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Lake Winnebago Ice Shove 2014: How Wind Pushes Lake Ice onto Land
In 2014, Jim Morgenstern filmed a wall of broken ice creeping out of Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, piling up across a backyard and spilling ...
Igarka Plane Push: Passengers Move a Frozen Tu-134 in Siberia at -52°C
On 25 November 2014, at minus 52°C in the Siberian town of Igarka, a group of passengers climbed off their bus, walked up to a Tupolev Tu-1...
Snow Curls on Roofs: Why Snow Slides Off a Cabin Roof and Hangs in Mid-Air
A thick sheet of snow slides off a cabin roof and stops in mid-air, curling over the edge like a rolled-up carpet. Pictures like this, firs...
Roof Ice Avalanche at Great Wolf Lodge, Grapevine, Texas (December 2013)
In December 2013, after an ice storm locked Dallas–Fort Worth below freezing for days, a guest at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas,...