Ice invades Lake Osakis home

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Late last week, large slabs of ice piled up on the southwest shore of Lake Osakis, damaging a lake home and shoreline.

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Some area lakes have started to shed their icy skin, but in Osakis, the ice started coming off the lake with a vengeance.

Thursday night, large wind-blown slabs of ice started crunching into property along the southwest shoreline of Lake Osakis.

Winds howling out of the east northeast at 15 to 25 miles per hour whipped across the loosening ice floe

“All of a sudden we heard this crash and the ice was pushing big time,” said Bob Rosse of Osakis. He and his wife, Linda, live on the southwest shore, and their shoreline was plowed by the moving ice.

The Rosses’ next-door neighbors, Reed and Julie Peterson, have a much bigger problem on their property. The ice pushed its way into their lake home, crushing their deck and reportedly caving in part of their foundation. Gas was disconnected from their home Friday.

Rosse said it’s been about 10 years since the ice blew off the lake and caused this much damage on the southwest shore.

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