![]() As permafrost has been melting, methane gas has been released in high amounts. Now, the same precursor events are happening in Alaska – only this time there are scientists nearby collecting the data and piecing together exactly what is going on.Īs it turns out, global warming is a cyclical event that has been propelled by human activity. One day earlier, seismic activity was reported in Russia prior to the collapsing of an entire ice shelf. On Christmas Eve, a military scientist in Fairbanks, Alaska takes notice of odd sub-surface activity occurring in the northern hemisphere. 'Ice Quake' tries to pass itself off as a Christmas movie. The only thing more absurd than what they try passing off in their movies is the fact that enough people actually watch and purchase these made-for-television.things to keep Syfy churning them out. 'Ice Quake' (and basically ever other Syfy original movie) expects you to just go with this nonsensical reality. Since it would cost too much to shoot in caves or build realistic ones on a soundstage, they simply write it into the script that all he has to do is detonate a small bomb at ground level and the tiny blast will be enough to destroy the glacial caves well below the surface. For example, in 'Ice Quake,' our hero must stop an underground river from flowing down a certain cave. My biggest beef isn't with the atrocious screenplay, bland and/or scenery-chomping actors, low-budget special effects, or sheer ridiculousness – no, what bothers me the most is the dumb stuff that they try getting away with. “Two years ago, the same thing happened, but it was not as bad as this.The one benefit to come from a cataclysmic end-of-the-world disaster like the one threatening the characters in 'Ice Quake' would be the extinction of Syfy Channel original movies. “When it melts, the water is going to fill the homes,” he said. Kierstead says sometimes bulldozers are brought in to help clear the huge ice chunks, but realistically, he believes these homeowners will just have to wait for all of it to melt. It is unfortunate when it does this kind of damage.” “This happens on Lake Winnebago when there is a lot of ice that starts breaking up, and heavy winds. “It’s definitely pretty, unless it hits your house,” Dan Kierstead joked. “It’s almost like you’re in another world being up against these pieces of ice.” “It is destructive, but it's beautiful too,” Poeschl said. Poeschl cannot help but look at 10-foot mounds of ice in awe. “We also keep checking to make sure no one is around who we don’t know, trying to get into these homes that now have broken windows and walls.” ![]() “We just wanted to make sure there aren’t any gas lines that broke or anything,” said Terese Poeschl. We caught up with neighbors trying to help. Many of the homeowners affected use these places as cottages and are not in town. While ice shoves happen on the lake every spring, they haven’t created this bad of a problem in more than 40 years.
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