Lighthouse Owner Rides Out Blizzard On Island In Boston Harbor

BOSTON (CBS) -- The blizzard had most people hunkering down and staying inside Saturday. Dave Waller is no different - except he has chosen to watch the storm from his lighthouse on The Graves, an island in Boston Harbor.

"Everybody should be out here," he told WBZ-TV. The Graves Light owner was able to share a unique view of waves crashing into the island.

"Everything is completely covered with water."

Wave heights were reported to be as high as 20 feet in Boston Harbor Saturday afternoon.

"We were watching WBZ and we heard about how big this thing was going to get and I called around to a bunch of friends and everybody said no except two other knuckleheads. We came out yesterday, dead calm, and got a bunch of firewood and food. We're all provisioned up and ready to ride it out," said Waller.

This is the biggest storm Waller has spent out in the lighthouse, he said. Their anemometers to measure wind gusts broke somewhere after hitting 65 mph.

So what's for dinner in the lighthouse? A Portuguese fisherman's stew, Waller said.