People living on the East Coast over Lake Erie in New York can’t believe what they’re going through. Over the weekend, their houses were ravaged by gale-force winds and 15-foot waves from the lake which encased the structures in 1-to-3 inch thick ice.
“It looks fake, it looks unreal,” local resident Ed Mis told CNN. “It’s dark on the inside of my house. It can be a little eerie, a little frightening.”
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The man said that there was no ice in his yard on Thursday but by Friday morning, his home and others’ homes were completely covered.
Local meteorologists describe the phenomena as unusual, given the warm winter they’ve had. There was very little ice cover on Lake Erie due to the milder weather which allowed the waves to get much larger.
“So because of the high winds, there was an awful lot of spray coming off the lake,” Judy Levan, the meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Buffalo, explained. “Normally this time of year, we generally have more ice cover on the lake so we don’t have that much spray. The lake is generally a sheet of ice.”
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After footage of the frozen neighborhood went viral, it has even become a tourist attraction. However, police officials are asking visitors to stay away for their own safety.
Local police issued a statement on Sunday informing that sightseers could also face trespassing charges if they choose to disobey. “Not only is the ice extremely unsafe and unstable, [but the majority is also] in areas which are private property,” they said.
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In the meantime, residents are worried the ice could damage their homes. “We’re worried about the integrity of structure failure when it starts to melt because of the weight on the roof,” Mis said.
Sean Crotty, Hamburg’s emergency manager, told Today that a gallon of water weighs about 8 pounds, and when you look at all the ice that’s on these buildings, structural collapse is definitely a possibility.
“The community has been seeing more than their fair share of situations between wind damage and the Halloween storm and an ice shove at the end of February,” Crotty said. “In the last year, they’ve endured probably a half dozen really heavy-duty storms that have caused damage to their homes, seawalls and private property.”
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Photos of the area immediately went viral on social media
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