Great Lakes high water levels impact communities across the basin

[jasonpettet]

When has the climate not changed?
As someone that has grown-up and lived on the shores of Lake Michigan in South Haven MI (a town showed in multiple pictures in this report) for over a half century, I lived through the highest water ever 1986 and to its return but not for its prior peek.
Every time the lake is low people build to the edge. When it comes up houses fall in with no where to go.
Anyone that builds on a historic flood plain should expect to someday get flooded.
Simple fact the water goes up and down by feet over time, with or without man.

[mortwally]

I live in Michigan I’m 68 years old I’ve seen Lakemichigan go up and down like this before got a remember one thing if it weren’t for global warming I’d be under 2 miles of ice

[warpedone]

And I was working by Lake Michigan late 80's early 90's. People were complaining because the water level was so low. Docks were dry their beaches were bedrock almost 200 yards from shore. One guy had a rock 50 yards offshore the size of a small house and he said all his life he's never knew that rock was there.

And they blamed that on manmade climate change

EDIT; 80's not late 90's

[derekgoyette]

People also don't realize that this also raises ground water levels inland that can affect septic systems and basements big time

[nstacho]

Lake levels even higher in Lake Erie in May 2020. Northeastern took out trees and land along Kelleys island east coast.

[thomasheer]

Gee several years ago, well about 2 decades, there was concern that the lakes were going dry. This is just a cycle of the environment.

[wrotedog]

The Ogoki Diversion is the only reason the great lakes will rise, not even enuff precipitation

[CaptPike]

March 2021, levels down over a foot from last year. Panicking scientists bring more money to their cause.

[davidmotyka]

Is it possible to pipe excess water out west where they need it?

[GIguy]

You should be here in Toronto in the spring, for the last two years the water has breached all of our seawalls, and flooded the entire boardwalk system and most of the waterfront with it. I’ve lived in the city all of my 51 years and I have never seen anything like it, and it’s only going to get worse this year they said. There are over 95 million people living on the Great Lakes, Toronto and Chicago being the two biggest cities, along with countless other smaller cities and towns, and no one places any more important than the other, we all have the right to live our lives without being terrified of losing it all because of flooding, but these government bodies don’t seem to be doing a damn thing about it, all they do is talk, but come up with no resolutions whatsoever.

[wookieiam]

There is a very large rubber tube that can fill with water and used to surround these homes instead of sandbags

[itsshawnamf]

Great video very informational thank you.

[papahajek]

20 years ago I went on chartered fishing trips and heard laments from charter captains of how the lowering levels of Lake Michigan were forcing the fish further from shore thus increasing the fuel needed for a successful catch. Now I guess this has changed. Much of the city shoreline is man made by dumping to build "lake front" property and roadways on what was once lake or marshland. Guess we might rethink that. We might hold some responsibility, but not from cow farts.

[granskare]

In Illinois, we have what we call "creeping charlie" - used it on my mom's cottage at the end of Shelter Bay road to hold the land - it is still working as I believe. Somebody ought to check it out!

[blaineshower]

I think there was more extreme weather during the 70's when we dipped into a cooling period. I'm hearing alot of " probablys" and "models suggest" ..I would like to see the actual data .

[grosvenorclub]

Maybe its just because the more you build around the lake the more its going to look for other areas to flood .

[ffgfggrgughb]

Everything that comes from Antarctica goes to lakes

[RideAcrossTheRiver]

Okay, so 20 years ago, the concern was low water levels.

[rossmclean]

This is not a very fair view of what Montreal goes through. I believe more water should be emptied out during the rest of the year but parts of montreal including my community have had a lot of loss and devastation from the spring Melt. We have the Northern Basin as well as the St lawrence to deal with. EMPTY more water the rest of the year. we've fought as many floods as you have and if you change the Spring Limit it will devestate us.

[NeetchianQueen]

I guess everyone has forgotten the 500 year flood of the Mississippi. These things happen in cycles, being overdue for another ice age, from a pole flip is something to prepare for Not make other excuses or play some blame game.