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It Was So Cold in Canada, The Ground Exploded

Posted January 07, 2014 11:11 AM

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Even before the polar vortex put large swathes of the US into a deep freeze, subzero temperatures in Canada were causing frost quakes. A few nights ago, residents around Ontario woke up to mysterious booms like an explosion or falling tree. Turns it was just the cold.

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01/07/2014 11:26 AM

So much ice

they linked to it twice.

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01/07/2014 3:04 PM

Looks like my old freezer that had to be manually defrosted.....

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01/08/2014 10:17 AM

Isn't that first picture from the set of Thor?

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01/07/2014 5:14 PM

Saw the Discovery channel program on the Urals. It seems in Russia winter comes on so fast and hard the trees do not have time to adjust and so it literally causes the bark to explode off the trees. Quite loudly too.

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