The photos I posted of the lake running down Wisconsin Avenue were the calm before the storm. It really got bad after that. Here is a shot from the bakery that made Jake's graduation cake - looking out to the lake. There is supposed to be a road and a beach here. Instead you can see a bit of how they lined the snow plows up going all the way across the lakefront to try to stop the water. The sandbags needed help. There must have been 20 plows lined up end to end.
This business was lucky - most lakefront stores had water all the way up inside of them. Being on the far east side spared this bakery. (The plows are in the street and you can see the life guard chair where the beach is.)
The local paper had a photo of people spear fishing for carp - as they were everywhere - swimming down Wisconsin Ave.
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