Some of you have seen this in person, so it may be self-explanatory.
For the others, this is a view of the steps down to the lake. You can see 3 concrete steps, one of which is now below the water line. The water is normally somewhere between the top of that bottom step and somewhere well below it, often times revealing the sand on the bottom of the lake. I have never seen the water above the bottom step, as it is in this picture, even after the spring snow melt. So the water is at least a foot higher than it would normally be this time of year.
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According to local lore, has the water ever risen to the point of reaching houses?
It's all sucky. A lot of things that shouldn't be in the lake end up in the lake after the water rising like this.
Have not heard of any such thing.
As you may recall, there is a rather large marsh immediately adjacent to the lake. The two seem to have reached a symbiosis - the lake has not risen at all since yesterday morning despite constant rain. The marsh appears to be taking all the extra water and so an exponential amount of rain would be required to raise the level enough to flood houses.
Our house is about as low as any on the lake, so we're likely to be the first should it happen.
The houses that abut the marsh are faring less well, though none seem to in the water themselves. I saw a garage that was being assimilated, and a backyard shed that is about 4ft under water.
Lots of worse places in the state.
And nothing like the flood of 1993.
I suggest that you find some gopher wood and start building yourself an ark. The rain you are getting is a blessing in cognito. The lake levels have been down for years because of years of drought. You should monitor the lakes ph level to see if the rains that come are more acidic or not. Hard to get a baseline since it has been rainning for 40 days and nights.
You've never heard of extra pollutants ending up in our waterways as a result of floods?
There's a reason why people are advised not to throw lawn trimmings in the lake.
Not to mention the sorts of crap that cars leave behind associated with roadways, should those go under as well.
Virtually every lake and waterway in NE has ph problems sue to years of acid rain from power plants in the Ohio Valley.
Eating fish out of these bodies of water is not recommended at all for pregnant women and for infrequent consumption by everyone else due to the high level of mercury.
Not sure flood waters are going to great exacerbate that. The 150 million gallons of raw sewage flowing into the merrimac due to sewer problems in Lawrence and Haverhill are another matter altogether. That and the large number of people with septic systems and wells around hear make high water a long term health risk.
Unless god itself comes and tells me to build an ark, I'm not doing it.
Thankfully the sun is out today and highs are supposed to be in the 70's. It was a pain to get to work however due to the large number of flooded roads between here and there. Still, very lucky to have gotten through this so well.
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