Lakeville residents hunker down while blizzard turns households into ‘snowglobes’
Snowdrifts build and windows are turned into "snowglobe" scenes while blizzard conditions blanket Lakeville on Monday. Photos source: Jonathan Breindel
Backyard furniture disappears under more than a foot of snow at a Lakeville home.
The view looking outside of a Lakeville home is met with a snow-covered window after high winds and wet snow conditions land in the area.
Snowdrifts build and windows are turned into "snowglobe" scenes while blizzard conditions blanket Lakeville on Monday. Photos source: Jonathan Breindel
Backyard furniture disappears under more than a foot of snow at a Lakeville home.
The view looking outside of a Lakeville home is met with a snow-covered window after high winds and wet snow conditions land in the area.
LAKEVILLE — Residents are hunkering down as a blizzard roars through Lakeville.
As Monday afternoon, roughly 25 inches of snow has fallen in Lakeville. Residents are preparing for power outages, and for some watching snow drifts build up brings memories of previous major winter storms to mind.
While the fire department braces for difficult response times under white-out conditions and households being snowed in, Lakeville residents are heeding the call and staying in as the storm makes its way through the region.
Lakeville resident Fred Reagan, who lives near Commercial Drive and Route 105, said the blizzard conditions remind him of the major blizzard that hit New England in 1978.
He said he plans to get plenty of use out of the shovel he bought during the most recent snow storm, but the high wind is causing major snow drifts.
“You can't do much right now because it's blowing so many snow-drifts all over the place,” Reagan said.
Lakeville resident Jonathan Breindel, who lives near Clear Pond Park, said almost all of his house’s windows are covered with snow.
“The amount of snow is insane,” Breindel said. “Our wind chimes that hang in a tree are not ‘wind chiming,’ because the base of the chimes are in a snow drift.”
To prepare for the blizzard, Breindel said he and his family bought bread, milk and eggs for their “emergency French toast.”
With plenty of extra coffee, food and logs for their fireplace, he and his family will be catching up on reading to pass the time with the company of their pet cats.
Lakeville resident John Gregory, who lives on the north end of Long Pond, said it is hard to make out the wetland behind his back porch because the view is similar “to the inside of a snow globe.”
Like many residents in town, Gregory has well water which can’t be pumped if the power goes out. He prepared by filling his bath tub up with seven gallons of water to keep the toilet running if outages do occur.
He said he also prepared an activity to do when not out shoveling or watching the news for weather updates.
“I always make sure to go to the library and get four or five books to read,” Gregory said.
He said the conditions remind him of the series of winter storms that battered New England in 2015. He said he’s learned more than a few storm-preparation tricks after that storm snowed-in his family for multiple days.
Although there’s plenty of tall trees surrounding his property, he said he hasn’t seen the wind and heavy snow knock them down so far.
“We just see the trees dancing in the wind,” Gregory said. “You can't quite see through the windows to even see how well [snow plows] have cleared the street.”
