A small town in the Niagara region appears to be completely crystallized following the massive winter storm that swept throughout the province late last week, giving a new meaning to the town’s name.
Crystal Beach, a lakefront community in Fort Erie, Ont., is now covered in ice, from the roofs of its houses to the roofs of cars. The storm prompted Environment Canada to issue weather warnings for much of the province due to powerful winds and dumps of snow.
“[The waves] were coming up over the break wall. They were probably 10 [or] 15 feet high, up above the break wall,” Derek Tupling, a long-time Crystal Beach resident, told CTV News Toronto on Tuesday. “Then the water has frozen up the backsides of the houses, so from the tops of the houses all the way down. 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.
“We’ve been here for a long time and have never seen weather as bad as that over that period of time,” Tupling said. “The damage that’s been caused and the destruction on the backsides of these houses of where we are now is unbelievable.” “Wind was blowing a gale, it was probably like 100 km/h, [and] we couldn’t see a thing,” Marchand said.
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