Homes on Lake Erie were encased in ice as blizzard whipped frigid waves onshore.
Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada after last weekend’s blizzard whipped the frigid waves on shore.
Residents of the Fort Erie community, coincidentally named Crystal Beach, said the waves were crashing over their Lake Erie break wall during the storm.
“Then the water has frozen up the backsides of the houses, so from the tops of the houses all the way down,” Derek Tupling told CNN news partner CTV. “So, you can just imagine the sheer volume and strength of water coming up over the wall to hit it and then freeze – flash freeze – immediately. It’s absolutely incredible.”
The community is west of Erie County, New York, where the death toll from the historic blizzard has climbed to over three dozen, most of them in the city of Buffalo.
The temperature has risen to 44F this afternoon.
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