“It
's The Day After
, but for real!
writes this Internet user in reference to the disaster film by Roland Emmerich released in 2004 and showing a city of New York completely covered in ice.
On social networks, Internet users comment half-horrified, half-fascinated on the images of this "blizzard of the century" which is affecting the United States.
One of the images that has gone around the world is that of Kevin Hoak, the owner of this restaurant located on the shores of Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes of North America, the region most affected by this historic winter storm.
If the latest images from Google Earth, dating from last August, show a pleasant place where it is good to enjoy a plate of grilled seafood at sunset on the lake, the photos and videos taken during the storm are apocalyptic.
We see the family restaurant opened in 1945 transformed into a veritable ice palace.
Kevin Hoak explains that the wind has started to blow very hard on the restaurant and its foundations.
Then "the temperature went from 7 C° to -11 C°" which had the effect of freezing the entire restaurant.
But Kevin seems to see the positive side of things: “It protected the restaurant from the wind,” he says, while admitting to being stressed by the weight of all this ice which now weighs on the structure.
“We will only see the damage when everything has melted” admits this restorer.
The Lake Erie region paid a heavy price during the passage of this storm.
At least 27 people have died.
The national balance sheet reports for the moment about fifty people died.