It happened in a community named Crystal Beach. See a gallery of the ice-encased homes here.
Lakefront homes in Ontario were encased in a thick, spiky coat of ice after last weekend's blizzard whipped frigid waves on shore.
"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."
In Fort Erie overnight low temperatures dropped into the single digits during the storm -- around 20 degrees below average for this time of year. Forecasts from the National Weather Service warned that winds over Lake Erie would climb to 60 mph and waves could grow to more than 25 feet during the peak of the storm last Friday and Saturday. Forecasters cautioned that"heavy freezing spray" could accumulate on surfaces at nearly an inch per hour.
Tupling told CTV that the ice that accumulated on the Crystal Beach homes was at least a foot thick, and residents were concerned about damage due to the weight of the ice.
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