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Weird 'ice boulders' wash up on Lake Michigan

They came on the tides by the hundreds – big, spherical clods of ice whose dirty-brown exteriors made them look like a platoon of Tribbles.

Presumably they're still around, entertaining people around Lake Michigan with their fun appearance and possible usage as nuclear-grade snowballs. Locals call them "ice balls" or "ice boulders," and though they might seem an unnatural, ominous formation to much of the world – something to be pushed back into the water with a bulldozer, perhaps – they've made many appearances in the history of the Great Lakes.




Published on Jan 8, 2014





Filmed in Glen Arbor, Michigan the town's local facebook page heralded the return of the ice boulders, (some as big as 20'' in diameter) with this mesmerizing video. local rangers speculate the creation of these balls are formed similarly to the rounded stones that wash up on the banks of the lake. Large ice chunks break off from over the water and are shaped into balls by the freezing waves.


http://news.msn.com/offbeat/weird-ic...-lake-michigan

[old377guy]

Too weird

[rschap1]

No extra charge to all the visitors

[Bobcat]

Thank goodness they ain't Blue Ice balls from the Airline industry

[Underdog88]

That's a spicy meat-a-ball...
I hate "hard" water.

[old377guy]

Thank goodness they ain't Blue Ice balls from the Airline industry

cuz blue balls ain't a good thing