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Watch violent winds, the icebergs in Yards from Oneida Lake Homes (video) blow.

The mighty storm system, which blew through Central New York on Sunday afternoon, brought 60 to 70 miles per hour of wind gusts with it, which lowered trees and lowered thousands of houses in the district of onondaga.

On the north coast of Lake Onida, violent winds pressed huge chunks of ice into the meters of homeowners and formed up to 14 feet in some places.

“I have a diameter of 2 or 3 feet in diameter in my boathouse 9, 10 inches,” said Bill Lachut, who has a home on Dickinson Point between Bernhards Bay and Cleveland.

Lachut's motorboat threw the ice a few meters forward on its route, but it cannot determine the extent of the damage until the 12-footed wall that blocks the door melts.

Wind gusts of 60 to 70 miles per hour stacked chunks of ice on the north coast of Lake on the north coast of up to 14 feet in some places. The solid chunks of ice were 10 inches thick.Lou Ann Lachut

“It's incredible,” said Lachut. “It's really incredible.

Lachut and his wife Lou Ann have never seen anything like this on the north coast. If your beaten boathouse is proof, nothing is what he happens in 80 years after the construction.

Lachut's neighbor, Terri Airth, has also lived on the north coast for 34 years. In spring, the prevailing western winds always pushed ice skirts to Sylvan Beach, she said. But winds came from the south during the storm on Sunday.

Wild winch bubbles icebergs into the Yards from Onida Lake

Wind gusts of 60 to 70 miles per hour on the north coast of Lake Onseid up to 14 feet high in some places and damage this pavilion on Dickinson Point.Lou Ann Lachut

Airth caught the whole thing on video. In the period of five minutes, the video shows the chunks of ice that accumulate like a glacier that flows within meters of Airth's rear deck, which is 110 feet from the shore.

“The ice has come before and near our break walls and material, but nothing of the same of this size,” said Airth. “And ice cream is so powerful that people don't know how powerful it can be.”

Airth's aluminum twisted the wind -related ice like a pretzel. It is visible at the beginning of the video and falls like a toy on the lawn.

The ice also crushed a wooden pavilion from Lachut's other Neigbhor.

“I love a northwest wind and a west wind, that's perfect,” said Lachut. “I bite my tongue until this ice has disappeared every year, and this year it didn't work out so well.”

Steve Featherstone covers nature for the post-standard, Syracuse.com And Nyup.com. Contact him sfeatherstone@syracuse.com Or on Twitter @Featheroutdoors. You can also entertain all of our content outdoors newYorkupstate.com/outdoors/ Or follow us on Facebook facebook.com/upstateyoutdoors.