bring in cnn's will ripley covering the storm from cape ann, massachusetts, and cnn meteorologist derrick van dam in new york. will you're right in the bull's-eye of this newest blizzard. are you ready? >> we are ready, as ready as you can be jim, but the next 12 hours are going to be critical because along the coast high tide hits about 7:30 a.m. 12 hours from now, and even though we've only seen light snow and light wind you can see the road already treacherous right now. of course this on top of all the huge piles of snow in this area. i want to give you a sense of just how dangerous these roads are as we get into our suv. keep in mind we're driving a ford expedition a large vehicle used to dealing with a lot of snowfall and yet we are already at this early stage of the game having a difficult time getting around definitely important to stay buckled up. we're going to show you the front view because this is really what is so dramatic here. this is the road that takes us to our hotel, a hotel that like many in this resort town of rock port massachusetts, are full right now of people here fo