Environment
Witness the Behemoth Ice Chunks of Cape Cod
Credit the bone-chilling winter for creating these mini icebergs.
Americans don't need a time machine to get a taste of the last Ice Age, when hulking icebergs routinely floated down the East Coast. They simply need to go to Cape Cod, where the beaches are littered with what look like chunks of exploded glacier.
The junior-bergs began washing ashore over the weekend and have since somewhat softened and shrunk, reports the Capital Weather Gang. Their gargantuan appearance is yet another reminder the Northeast just suffered an intensely raw February, with frigid temperatures body-slamming records and a historic five-plus feet of snow burying Boston. The region's conversion into The Lands of Always Winter is clear in this photo recently snapped by astronaut Sam Cristoforetti: