Explosives used to break up ice jam in North Dakota.
Demolition engineers are a resourceful bunch. They have to be; they never know what the next job might entail. But even the most versatile among them might have thought twice about undertaking the explosive “demolition” of a sheet of ice roughly the size of a football field that had become stuck in the Missouri River. As a result of the backed-up water, some 1,700 Bismarck residents had been forced from their homes.
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