Ice video from Lake Huron

My mother grew up in a town called Neenah-Menasha in Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Winnebago. Back then there were homes up and down the shore. The house she grew up was 2 blocks inland. As a child we would go visit the Grandparents every couple of years or so. Always in late winter, spring. The wind driven ice did exactly the same thing, 1 year it was so bad, that most of the shoreline homes were crushed!! The city came in, and said no more homes around here. It is now a park that extends the length of the lake, a block inland. It was quite a site to see a moving pile of ice 10 foot high!!! I felt sorry for all those lake shore homowners....

Just goes to show you can't stop Mother Nature!

 

Its not limited to lakefront property.

Out our way, people build incredibly expensive homes on beach front cliffs and then are surprised when the cliffs eventually erode away.

They also build on hilltops in forested areas and are surprised when the eventual forest fire rages right up the hillside.

In Sacramento (the Natomas area to be exact), they have approved and are building huge developments next to the Sacramento River levee. The DWR estimates that in the case of a levee breach, the water level could reach 26 feet in the area of the new homes.

Not to mention, mobile home parks become tornado magnets no matter where you locate them. :madgrin: