flood!
yeah, I just put off my exam till Friday when I looked out the window and discovered that the lake is now in my front yard. I guess this storm IS serious. and it hasn't started snowing yet. just raining and 60 mph winds.
our house is sort of on this weird little island, it's hard to describe. We are at the end of a street: the front yard ends at the lake, then there's a creek that empties into the lake that cuts from the lake around the side of the house and around the back. so there's one side of my house not bracketed by water, and we're not behind the breakwall the neighbors have because of the creek. if you're not a Great Lakes dweller, you might not have heard of a seiche, which is what is happening at the moment. Basically Lake Erie is shallow and the water in it displaces like a bathtub when a storm is strong and moving fast. since this one is rocketing in from the Midwest, all of Ohio's water is currently pounding at my doorstep. flood stage is 9 feet and we're at eight and a half right now. it's cool to watch as long as we stay dry haha.
a fun little video from the last time we had a storm like this ( this was the big Lake Erie seiche- I think this was 2007?)- seriously that is our FRONT YARD. twenty feet from our house!
our house is sort of on this weird little island, it's hard to describe. We are at the end of a street: the front yard ends at the lake, then there's a creek that empties into the lake that cuts from the lake around the side of the house and around the back. so there's one side of my house not bracketed by water, and we're not behind the breakwall the neighbors have because of the creek. if you're not a Great Lakes dweller, you might not have heard of a seiche, which is what is happening at the moment. Basically Lake Erie is shallow and the water in it displaces like a bathtub when a storm is strong and moving fast. since this one is rocketing in from the Midwest, all of Ohio's water is currently pounding at my doorstep. flood stage is 9 feet and we're at eight and a half right now. it's cool to watch as long as we stay dry haha.
a fun little video from the last time we had a storm like this ( this was the big Lake Erie seiche- I think this was 2007?)- seriously that is our FRONT YARD. twenty feet from our house!