Ice tsunami destruction and flood

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Out there series.... Rare footage of NWT community in Canada, Liidlii Kue (Fort Simpson), by the great McKenzie River (1700 km long), longest river in Canada. Ice river break-up in May 2021. It burst its banks and jammed up, resulting in a major (I call it an ice tsunami) and destruction/flood. The river turns to ice come winter, then in spring it breaks up. It's a spectacle to see, although this year, 2021, it went drastically wrong with natural events that can happen and cause it to flood. This time it was of epic proportions—loss of life, loss of parts of the island, loss of homesteads—and then came a major evacuation and then a rebuild. Evacuations to live in the bush, Pt. 2, as no way to exit area as it's surrounded by water. It's either a ferry (open water) via another river, the Liard, which joins the McKenzie River beside the lower island community. When both rivers join, it will either go smooth and flush the ice all the way downstream (and some ends up downstream out into the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk, the mouth of the McKenzie River). In this circumstance, all that could go horribly wrong did. It was an experience I shall never forget. Mashi cho and blessings to all the Liidlii Kue residents, other Dehcho native community residents, for your teachings and friendships. You will always have a place in my heart.
Paul