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Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls

 

Big Thaw - BIG CHILL

A colossus of ice and snow covered Niagara Falls on January 23, 1920, straddling the U.S. and Canadian shores and muffling the roar of water that rushed beneath.

Published in the April 1922 Geographic, the text with this photo complained that water diversion to hydroelectric plants wounded Niagara's majesty.

Today, successor plants produce 8,265,000 kilowatts of clean electricity.

Global warming hasn't yet relegated Niagara's ice bridges to history. Winters have grown slightly warmer, but an ice bridge is expected to form every year for at least the next half century.

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