coastal massachusetts. home upon home blanketed in ice. in marshfield, an a 80-foot stretch crumbled at high tide. pounding waves just poured over the top. >> this is horrible. we walked this wall yesterday and it is gone. >> reporter: jennifer bruno a soldier forced to abandon her home in tears. up the coast in scituate beach front homes have backyard lagoons. these cars completely submerged whole neighborhoods cut off by the flooding. steve tried to wade through the water to get back to his home and couldn't make it. it went from bad to worse. the ocean churning, cars buried, three to four inches of snow falling every hour. utility trucks are lining up to help people in eastern massachusetts now without electricity. the winds there clocked in at nearly 80 miles an hour. the fiercest of this storm so far. the winds kicking up something fierce. where i'm standing looks like newly fallen snow but beneath it