Niagara Falls at Spring and Emergency operation using a heavy military helicopter

Overview of weather and natural events around the World. What is happening in this world: natural disasters on the planet of Earth. The latest news about weather events and disasters. An Army National Guard Chinook helicopter and 5 members of the rescue team easily handled a 3,500-pound pontoon that broke away from an ice barrier on Lake Erie and the Niagara River during a storm and got stuck at the foot of Niagara Falls. It took just five minutes to remove a 3,500-pound piece of steel that had been stuck over the American side of Niagara Falls for the past 39 months. A powerful army helicopter carrying propellers on the already choppy rapids of the Niagara River with near-hurricane winds lifted the pontoon off the rapids Wednesday afternoon. A pontoon that broke free from an ice boom on Lake Erie during a February 2019 hurricane caught on Bird Island, about 100 yards from the edge of Niagara Falls. Authorities have spent the past four months planning how to remove it. Finally, sp