a Tsunami-cicle

Jesus Christ. That's like saying Nebraska is in the northwestern part of the country. I wonder if they're mixing it up with Red Lake.

a long way from Mille Lacs.

I'd say it's at least in the NW quadrant of the state, if not in the NW "corner." They could be thinking Lake of the Woods too, I guess.

I lived at the "L" of Lake in Leech Lake. Always felt like we went
straight north to Red Lake on the way to International Falls. But
really my point was that I find it hard to believe that anyone would
mistaken Mille Lacs for Red Lake....being they are so far from each
other.

and not out of the ordinary for that area.

Personally, I've never heard of it before and to me it does sound like something out of a bad sci-fi movie. I hope those people have good insurance and that it covers this.

and in the next 36 or so hours the weatherman tells me it will 85-90 degrees in Milaca

36 degrees one night, and then 93 a couple days later???
I must say, though, WeatherUnderground has been off by 10-20 degrees here in SoCal. Regardless, that is a HUGE jump if it happens!

1991 for instance on Tuesday 10/29 it was like around 80 degrees and I was in our yard B-B-Qing but on Friday woke up to this

If ya don't like the weather, wait ten minutes.

Woman Lake. It is not at all unusual for the ice to come on shore
when it 'goes out'. Mille Lac is so-o-o big that with high winds
pushing a floating mass it not at all hard to believe this scenario
on Mille Lacs ...just fyi. I've enjoyed all the press this has
gotten because usually the weather people ignored us! ha!

in THAT water. Uh uh.

many times. We could see them....as kids, when on vacation
years before moving there, we would play with the leeches...
pick them up mometarily on a stick...dumb...but we were kids.
(They're around in the lakes there...not just Leech Lake.)

because of the leeches." It was always a joke since none of us ever got or saw one. Fast forward 40 yrs to a family reunion at the lakes. Swimming in the lake, get out on the dock to find....you got it. A leech on my leg. Momentary disgust and wtfishness happened. I tossed it over to the neighbor's dock and talked with cousins my age. We all were amazed as thought it was just a ploy to keep us from messing around under the dock where we couldn't be seen.

Half hour later the national news was "OMG!!! ICE!!! FROZEN TSUNAMI!!!!" Must have been a slow news day, between nonstop trial coverages or something. Windy day at ice out means ice piling up on the far shore. A big lake like Mille Lacs has a long reach for the wind to get the ice moving. If the wind is strong enough and the ice thin enough to break up, you will have huge piles of ice.

it's the wrath of Zeus responding to the latest musings from Michele Bachmann.

cold, unforgiving ice? That's just Michele Bachman smiling hello.

Instead of waiting for the spring floods.

...36 degrees one day, with sheets of ice pounding on the back door and 90 degrees a day later and time to get the swimming trunks. Probably one of the reasons we respect mother nature so much, as well. I was born and raised in Park Rapids, MN and went to school in Grand Forks, ND...you're either tough, patient, resilient and respect mother nature or you just don't make it.

... Green Bay and Lake Winnebago, depending on the melt and which direction the prevailing winds are coming from ...

I remember it making the news when I was a kid because it happened rapidly & took out several houses one spring.