Sturgeon? Possible.
Sturgeon? Possible.
Yor are only a failure when you stop getting back up!
I'm not a hoarder........ "I'M A COLLECTOR"
Maybe one of those erosion control booms weighed down by snow and ice?
Wilderness Survival:
Surviving a temporary situation where you're lost in the wilderness
Alligator with some snow on top of him.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.
- William Arthur Ward
If you look real close while it moves you can see that it is several separate objects articulated and strung together. One part rolls in the water one way while another part rolls the opposite direction and each section moves independently as it bobs in the waves.
Looks to me like several large net floats still strung together and covered with misshapen blobs of ice.
If anyone actually finds out that is what it is please do not send me that knife!
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
Heh, I know what it is but don't want to ruin the surprise.
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This just in, the mystery "thing" is no longer there. Apparently, whatever it was was camera shy and has moved to North Dakota.
Darnit 1st! Tell us before I send that knife to Kyratt!!! Awwwwwww never mind, I'll send it too him anyway!Originally Posted by 1stimestar
If you keep threatening me like that I am going to link to Rick's hong picture and the Green Anaconda song in the same post!
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
Man, talk about over the top!
Noooooooooooo........say it ain't sooooooooo
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http://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska...6c011cfa1.htmlMysterious 'Alaskan Ice Monster' in Chena River surfaces in BLM video
An unusual ice formation looks like a snow-covered critter meandering up the Chena River in October, as seen in this screengrab from a video by Bureau of Land Management's Craig McCaa.
There was something in the water in the Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska. Two employees of the Alaskan Bureau of Land Management, Craig McCaa and Ryan Delaney, caught whatever it was video. It was big. Maybe 12 or 15 feet long. The Bureau of Land Management posted the mysterious film to Facebook at the end of October.
Video link: http://wapo.st/2fg4NcT
"Our Fairbanks employees captured this strange 'thing,' swimming in the Chena River," the post read. Hashtag Wild Wednesday, it added.
The wildness continued beyond Wednesday. Perhaps it was the whiff of authority, coming from a government agency. Perhaps it was the proximity to Halloween. Perhaps it was fueled by the American love for cryptids - unsubstantiated mythological critters, like Bigfoot - and tabloid love for implausible characters- like Bat Boy or Hillary Clinton's adopted alien baby.
Perhaps it was the way the thing seemed to ripple through the water, with an aquatic slither not unlike a snake.
The thing gained a name in the comments section. And so the Alaskan Ice Monster was born.
It was a cousin of the Loch Ness monster, or maybe Nessie herself had slipped past immigration. It was the Chena Chomper, a sea monster, a massive sturgeon, a zombie salmon, a wayward shark, a scabby whale, a pet alligator dumped in the river, an icy moose hide, an arthropod of unusual size or a giant arctic crocodile. It was a "beavegator," whatever that was. If you looked closely, it had tentacles. And gills. Or an armored tail. But definitely tentacles.
The video was not altered, the BLM said on Facebook, except only to add appropriately thematic music.
"It's strange thing. I don't know what I would have done if I had come by in a canoe or something," McCaa told Alaska Dispatch News last week. "But looking from it above on the University Avenue bridge I didn't feel too threatened."
In the end, of course, the story turned out to be more yarn than tail.
Experts at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game chimed in. It was nothing biological, just junk. Specifically, the BLM said in a Facebook update Sunday, the thing was "frazil ice stuck to a rope that is probably caught on a bridge pier."
The natural phenomenon of frazil ice occurs during bursts of cold. Instead of forming a crust, the small and super-cooled disks mix into flowing rivers and streams, giving the water a slushy appearance. There's ice, but no monster.
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Thanks 1st, now I will send you the awesome knife, and because I have an extra, Kyratt still gets his!!!!
Oh no, you don't have to do that. I have the location advantage.
Why do I live in Alaska? Because I can.
Alaska, the Madness! Bloggity Stories of the North Country
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He wasn't really going to send it since it is his favorite go to knife.
Last edited by crashdive123; 11-10-2016 at 07:14 AM.
Ahhh lol. I just thought it was funny that it got so much attention.
Why do I live in Alaska? Because I can.
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"Building Codes, Alaskans don't need no stinking Building Codes." Sourdough
Yes, I have wifi in my outhouse!
People are hungry for a reason to watch the news that doesn't bum them out....
Welcome diversion........
May get as much attention as the Wisconsin's Hodag....They still celebrate it to this day...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag
Besides ....I'm not saying it was aliens .....but it was aliens.
Last edited by hunter63; 11-10-2016 at 11:19 AM.
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Oh you have gone and done it now! Be waiting for something in the mail!!!
Oh yes, we all need/ed some distraction.
Why do I live in Alaska? Because I can.
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