The flood of 2019

An almost perfect set up, with massive snowfall this winter and then torrents of rain pouring into that snowpack and the rivers, as they say, rose...

Like falling isn't what hurts, it's the landing that gets you, when lakes flood it isn't so much the water and the moving ice that is of concern.

This is Anchor... with the docks underwater and the ice on the march.

Looking down the shore, there's Clover's dock under those distant barrels.

  The barrels, full of water, weigh about 700 lbs. and keep the waves from lifting up the planks. 

No bonfires right now at Springside's cookout beach

 There is no beach!  But the water if finally coming down
We sill be able to sit on the bench without getting wet feet by summer.

That is Beaver's dock, tied to Springside. It did not fare so well,and was shoved off the cribs, which were also smashed. The ice apparently took a dislike to this one.  We'll try to salvage what we can...

 A lot of our neighbours around the lake were  not so lucky as we were.  When ice is this high, it floats into the support system and quite literally knocks the legs out from under the buildings. Nothing stops ice. Not iceaways,nothing. When it starts to move it movesl  Vertically it has no strength, but horizontally it is honeycomb in structure and terribly strong.

Brian took these photos.