PS from Sisyphus

The lake has been pretty calm for the last couple of weeks and there is no ice as of yet. That means the beach is still vulnerable to a big storm. Just to illustrate what a mild storm can do I have a before and after picture from the last little blow. In the first picture you can see a wall of about four feet in height and 35 feet in length running along the base of the bluff parallel to the waterline approximately 15 feet from the surf line.

 In this picture you can see what a moderately powerful storm did to the wall. Some stone is lying in the foreground, but the bulk of the stone from the wall was washed down the beach about fifty yards. I rebuilt it over the next three weekends only to have it washed out a second time. I have managed to put a smaller version in place in the hopes that it will provide a little protection to the bluff in the case of a small storm, but hopefully nothing big will come along before we get some ice dune protection.