Power of the Ob - drifting ice on the river breaks railings and drags people away from hi-tech lives
By The Siberian Times reporter
19 May 2018
Spectacular ice show attracts mesmerised crowds of onlookers in Surgut as world’s 7th longest river defies spring.
His critics saw him as a charlatan who discredited the Russian royals and help predicate the Russian Revolution. Picture: The Siberian Times
By this time of year, boats are usually plying the ice-free Ob, but in 2018, while the winter covering the river has begun to move like a giant monster - but it has not cleared.
Far from it.
Here the thick ice is slowly drifting downstream in a northerly direction towards the Arctic yet with temperatures still of an unseasonal -5C, this could go on a while.
As our remarkable videos show, this is an awesome and eerie sight, magnetic to those lucky enough to be in the vicinity.
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