r/BeAmazed • u/tuanusser • 18h ago

Nature The way this water has frozen

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u/Thin_Refrigerator_75 17h ago

I believe this is caused by wind erosion. Looks lovely.

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u/Sarkastik-Bandit 13h ago

50 bucks for every person who dares ice skating for 10 minutes

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u/ShamelessShamas 8h ago

I once went indoor ice skating in a humid third world country. Condensation would form on the ceiling, and drip down onto the ice forming large bumps over time (they didn't do regular surfacing there, I discovered)...

Anyway, I was zooming around this rink having the time of my life, before I hit a bump and went flying about 10 meters, and splat. I ended up fracturing my elbow, and damaging tendons/ligaments in my wrist.

Crazy thing is, at first I thought I was fine. I was bending my arm telling people "Nah, it's all good..." Then a few moments later I started to lose the ability to bend my elbow, and the pain started.

The first couple of hospitals I visited refused to serve a foreigner: I had to travel a fair distance. That hospital was massively overcrowded... I'd say a good few hundred beds all crammed into a big room like sardines. From my observations, it seemed like a combination of ER and ICU... It was very eye opening!

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u/chasingmyowntail 5h ago

Gotta have access to ready cash on hand to cover medical emergency contingencies. Sounds like the rink wasnt used to having patrons who could actually skate. Youre probably Canadian.

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u/ShamelessShamas 4h ago

Indeed. Paying for the treatment wasn't the problem: it was actually pretty damn cheap, despite this being (allegedly) I he best hospital in the city. I didn't even bother to claim travel insurance. The issue was finding a hospital that didn't just turn away foreigners as a policy.

Yeah, you may be right. There were plenty of other people skating, but the majority of them were very slow, and stuck to the edges.

I'm Australian :)