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It looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie but it is all too real. giant tsunami like ice waves some as high as 30 feet, creeping on shore, slamming into homes and destroying them. lisa sylvester has the unbelievable details. >> reporter: a menacing slow moving wall of ice. you can hear the ice crackling as it gets closer, it sounds more like the chugging of a train rolling in. >> it is crawling up the walls of the houses. >> reporter: and roll in it did. >> oh, my god, their door is in. >> reporter: darla johnson shot this as it approached a row of townhouses. >> i got pretty scar...

>> it's crawling up the walls of the house. >> and roll in, it did. >> oh, my god, their door is in! >> darla johnson shot this video as it approached this row of townhouses. >> i got pretty scared this might not stop. >> high winds helped push massive ice floes off lake ma lox and into the homes of worried neighbors. everyone is calling it an ice tsunami, but -- >> it's not an ice tsunami. it's actually an ice shove. an ice shove is a surge of ice that's moved onshore, whether it be a lake body or an ocean body, on to a coastal shoreline, typically caused by wind conditions like it was in thi...

27-home subdivision noticed they had cracked in their walls, the cracks became fractures and all of a sudden the ground began sinking. this ground goes down gradually, two feet one day, two inches the next, about a dozen homes so far destroyed and many others on the edge. listen. >> anybody would be afraid up here. it's only because of the unknown. you don't know what's going to happen. i'm told i'm safe. i assume i'm safe. but does anybody really know yet? >> reporter: yeah, authorities think it might be water kind of bubbling up to the surface but they really don't know exactly what's causin...

The extraordinary event lasted 15 minutes and forced resident to run for their lives. >> i saw the ice just coming, just moving so quickly, the ice caning right through the living room here. he said, grab whatever you can, get the keys we have to get out of here. >> luckily no one was hurt in that freak disaster. it captures a waver ice threatening houses. this happening in arizona. >> cold weather, we need to talk about it. your first degree weather update is here with maria molina. not waking up necessarily to an ice tsunami but colder than normal temperatures. >> we are talking about freeze...