# What happens to something built on top of ice?

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**Created:** [July 1, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-to-something-built-on-top-of-ice/790301 "2017-07-01T19:05:21Z")\
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Ok, let’s take the house example.

If you build it up really skookum and make sure it’s placed secure on top of an ice flow, and then, the ice melts, _but then_, the ice starts to freeze up _again_ while the house is sort of in the _middle_ of melting its way downwards (diagonally for some reason), then - that’s really a sticky situation, kind of being in limbo, and I’d really try to avoid that if you can.

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