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Breakup 2005

Breakup in 2005 took place on 5 May. Like everyone else in the village, we had to go down to the river and watch. It's actually kind of cool, too, watching all of the ice suddenly moving downriver.

Videos of the 2005 breakup are here!

Here's some words of warning about the videos. These were made from my old Nikon Coolpix 5200 camera, which recorded the videos as Quicktime images. I spent two days trying to code those onto the webpage before discovering that I could convert the files to .mpegs or Windows Media files and show them here. Unfortunately, I lost some quality when converting the files.

One more word: these files range from 1.1 MB to 5 MB, which means that you may have to wait for a considerable amount of time if you're downloading the file with a dail-up connection. Sorry about that. If you have a slow connection, select the Windows Media file.

Video one - JoJo says hello to the aunties in Africa
Movie file - 2.2 MB
Windows Media - 1.1 MB
Video two - JoJo dances on the ice
Movie file - 2.2 MB
Windows Media - 1.1 MB
Video three - ice moving on the river
Movie file - 2.2 MB
Windows Media - 1.1 MB
Video four - massive ice floes on the river
Windows Media - 5.0 MB

The family next to the ice heaped up on the shore of the Yukon River.

JoJo among the ice.