{"id":2813,"date":"2016-04-18T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/frozen-niagara-falls-are-nothing-short-of-spectacular\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T22:10:04","slug":"frozen-niagara-falls-are-nothing-short-of-spectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/frozen-niagara-falls-are-nothing-short-of-spectacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Niagara Falls are nothing short of spectacular"},"content":{"rendered":"

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c. 1900<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Image: Archive Photos\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sitting athwart the U.S.-Canada border, Niagara Falls (the collective name for Horseshoe, American and Bridal Veil Falls) dump an average of 4 million cubic feet of water over a 167-foot drop every minute<\/p>\n

Combined, the falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall worldwide, making them not only spectacular tourist destinations but critical sources of hydroelectric power.<\/p>\n

Winters in upstate New York and Ontario can be bitterly cold, and significant portions of the surface of the falls have frozen more than once<\/p>\n

While water still flows beneath the surface, the ice has sometimes been thick and stable enough for brave souls to venture out and walk along the precipice. In 1912, three people were killed when the section of ice they were walking across broke free and plunged over the falls. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about New York<\/a>, Weather<\/a>, History<\/a>, Winter<\/a>, and Niagara Falls<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

c. 1900 Image: Archive Photos\/Getty Images Sitting athwart the U.S.-Canada border, Niagara Falls (the collective name for Horseshoe, American and Bridal Veil Falls) dump an average of 4 million cubic feet of water over a 167-foot drop every minute Combined, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[874,1196,2042,1091,1092],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-history","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}