This could become all too familiar with the thaws and freezes we are getting. Waupun is about an hour away from Milwaukee on the way to Chicago. Today was zero with a high of 4.
Allison
From: Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com>
To: Geology2 <geology2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:05 AM
Subject: [Geology2] Ice quake leaves 100-foot crack in Waupun family's driveway
Ice quake leaves 100-foot crack in Waupun family's driveway
Aileen Andrews / Fond du Lac Reporter
Dennis Olsen of Waupun measures a giant crack in his driveway apparently caused by an ice quake.
By The Associated Press
Jan. 13, 2014
Waupun — A weather phenomenon known as an ice quake has left a Waupun family with a giant, 100-foot long crack in their rural driveway.
Dennis Olsen heard an explosive sound last week and thought his garage might have blown up. That wasn't the case. Then he checked his basement, thinking a wall had split. Everything looked fine.
It wasn't until the next morning that Olsen discovered the driveway fissure. He called the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department. Deputies knew actually what happened because other residents in the area had experienced the same booming sounds of an ice quake. It results from water freezing and expanding in the soil and bedrock.
Olsen told Action Reporter Media it's the first time he's ever seen the effects of an ice quakehttp://www.jsonline.com/weather/ice-quake-leaves-100-foot-crack-in-waupun-familys-driveway-b99182994z1-239936381.html
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