Ice Jam Releases in Custer County, MT

3/20/19: The Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers at Miles City, MT enter flood stage as an ice jam forms. Then, we capture the dramatic release and ice flow.

[@Grandma_Lori]

As a Floridan, this is unimaginable! It is mesmerizing to watch, especially at the bridge icebreaker supports. 😮😮

[@RRRIBEYE]

03:10 Kinda feelin' like I"m on a concrete Ice-Breaker! Weird how with no reference to the horizon - it gives a very realistic feeling that you're the one in motion!

[@AutoCrete]

I found that kind of hypnotic, especially the footage of the bridge pillars breaking the ice. Very nice video.

[@Arthur5260]

Hypnotic is a great word for it.

[@everready2903]

Just commented the same!

[@lucielessard4429]

Springtime! Even 4 years after, this ice flow thrills me so much!

[@HellYeahImIrish]

at 3:08 it looks like the bridge is moving instead of the river

[@sallyshipwreck4315]

That bridge support makes a good ice breaker! Great video, thanks!

[@zalmaflash]

Best part is the design of the bridge pier working perfectly. Thanks

[@chandarussell]

I’d forgotten how fast these breakups moved.

[@jonabriggs8829]

Great job !!! BEST Ice break up Video I've seen all day !!! And, I been watching them all day !!! :)

[@alidagerhart890]

Awesome, awesome film, credits galore to the person who filmed this. So appreciate this one of many great viewsof our great state. Much too large to see it all.

[@smoothfags20]

You captured an optical illusion at 3:10, looks like the Bridge is moving through the ice flow. lol

[@oriolesfan129]

Looks like an ice breaking ship moving against the fast current.

[@smoothfags20]

@@oriolesfan129 Yes, it does !

[@boB7710II]

Moving ice and water sure has amazing amounts of power

[@1chish]

Nothing quite like Mother Nature to give an awe inspiring show of power

[@philipnavin9134]

Interesting seeing wildlife tracks in the snow from when the frozen river was a crossing point.

[@alanatolstad4824]

It would be fun to know if those tracks were hours, days, or weeks old!

[@406fishing9]

Man I remember this, I used to live on the north side of the tracks on 7th st. Thought the river was gonna take over

[@deenasmusicbox]

Best one I've seen yet, and I've seen a few this year, 2021.

[@lavapix]

Relaxing like watching lava flow.

[@everready2903]

Hypnotic even!

[@johnm.evangelis693]

It looks like a USCC Ice Breaker. Good video!!!

[@vincent7520]

Excellent colors. Good shots.

[@brallybear620]

Really nice video. Thank You for it.

[@localdu]

did anyone else notice the footprints on the chunk of ice that hit the pillar at 04:33?

[@lindalee7322]

Thank you for sharing. God bless you all and keep you safe.

[@vivianwinford4852]

You can see tracks on some of the ice flows before they get broken up. Can't tell what kind of animal or human they are.

[@adriancarter2863]

Look like Elk 🦌 or Moose 🦌 to me. Look too deep round and far apart to be anything else. Certainly not human. Would be figure-of-eight shaped otherwise. Possibly Lynx 🐆.

[@graygirl260]

So cool!! Awesome footage! Love your video!

[@JP-kb4yi]

Water is so powerful in all forms it takes!

[@shelleyfreese5341]

Wonderful video! Kudos to those behind the cameras.

[@bigskyweather7947]

Thank you!

[@Arthur5260]

I got cold just watching that. Beautiful footage.

[@notatechie]

Funny, it looks like the bridge is moving instead of the river to me.

[@fiegenfiegen]

That's quite a concrete ice breaker sailing away!

[@1Ocqueoc]

Should have gone downstream to the Sidney/Fairview area a few days later ... Thousands of acres flooded, dozens lost their homes The ice was up to within a few feet of the structure of the Fairview Lift Bridge (about 30 feet higher than the average water level)

[@bigskyweather7947]

We actually were able to get down there, but it was just after the rest of the Yellowstone in Montana had gone out. We saw some of the huge ice chunks piled up on the sides of the river in that neck of the woods, must have been an incredible sight to see it moving! The ice moving in this video had actually stopped only several miles down from the bridge we were filming on (Right around the Powder River inlet and some friends farm land even a quarter mile from the river got flooded. Always so terrible to see.

[@robertlee3778]

Kudos to the camera person; perfect video. 😊

[@JudyCL]

Feels as if the bridge is plowing thru the ice like the bow of a ship

[@Tbird1549]

Incredible video!

[@zoomerboomer3109]

Why hasn’t this been in some sort of satisfying compilation?

[@bradpolmateer4965]

Ice out can be an awesome display

[@moonlandingagain3228]

This was the highlight og the Custer County that year!

[@alanatolstad4824]

Impressive sights and sounds.

[@BrokeDickBoys]

The reason for so much silt in the water? This river always have so much in it, or just the season?

[@williammorris2798]

It so crazy that the fish in the rivers survive these meat grinders ever year.

[@blowemall]

Titanic ship breaks the icebergs as it travels :)

[@geoffreylee5199]

Shots at the bridge have an optical illusion to them.

[@jeanmarcguiriato6915]

La monstrueuse puissance de la nature.

[@carolinenunez3455]

Mesmerizing.

[@deenasmusicbox]

Doesn't anyone think that looks like a swan made from the debris @1:03? 🦢🦢🦢🦢

[@Chaosfury50]

Anyone notice how each large ice block will almost always break into 3 pieces when hitting the bridge's concrete shoe?

[@markstegeman4337]

Looks like the bridge is doing it's job

[@hartmankenneth]

Oh my shit, I fell asleep while watching it.

[@g.r.4853]

difficult to realize WE are standing still and the ice is moving.. Maybe grasp is a better word.

[@JasmineLindros]

"... but I wanted to be ready to go." When the desire for a good shot wars with intelligence, and intelligence wins.

[@skycrapsglider]

Nice .....

[@davidglaum2538]

What did the ice say to the bridge? You are so funny you just break me up.

[@jantruitt9241]

Mans ingenuity against Mother Nature, impressive!

[@raymondmerchant988]

That bridge abutments are going to need repaired

[@eroildocortes4973]

GUGUAO😮

[@ivanolsen7966]

all that frozen fresh water going to waste

[@markwoolley418]

Aaaa

[@candeffect]

If I was a lib I would want ice-friendly bridges.

[@lannyflannery9409]

Please get out of the wind.

[@inpursuitofhappiness4873]

Tracks! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5vYenlop958mMU