Last Saturday, after I left for Guatemala, Steve put the pier in. He is always the first one to get the pier in and taunted me from thousands of miles away about how warm and calm it was that day and that I would have skied if I had been home.
Then the rain came. And it rained some more. And some more.
Lake Tippecanoe is notorious for high water in the spring because so many lakes feed into Tippy --- which is part of the reason Steve puts the pier in so early. He likes to put the pier in early when the water is low. (Otherwise the ice-cold water sneaks in over his waders!)
Every year we watch the water rise and then listen to everyone else complain that their their pier is under water. Our pier, however, is about 6 inches higher than everyone else's on the lake so we have never had a problem. We just wonder why everyone has not learned to either raise their pier or wait until the water recedes before putting it in.
This year was a little different:
The lake level was about 18 inches below the pier last weekend. This weekend the water was so high that Steve had to swim out to remove the pier that was floating away.
The water rose nearly 3 feet and went over our seawall which was built above the 100-year flood level.
The first picture shows the water level almost to our neighbor's house. The water also reaches up the lane and nearly surrounds the shops in the back yard.
We are high and dry . . . and will stay that way for a while since the lake is now closed to motorized boat traffic. (No spring skiing for me . . . yet.)
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