Wisconsin Dells flood as Lake Delton drains the life out of local tourism
Today's google trends lesson: Always think twice when you invest in shorefont property. There is heartache this week in the Wisconsin Dells, where Lake Delton , Upper Spring Lake and other smaller bodies of water in the area have broken through their previous barriers to drain into the Wisconsin River. I don't know these places, but it sounds like a lot of water. Houses have been washed away , leaving their luxury lakefront living infrastructure as a lurking menace to the local tourism industry. I experienced successive floods of similar magnitude as a kid growing up in the desert town of Lake Elsinore , California in the late 1970s. What I remember most about those times is that we didn't have to go to school. Actually, we couldn't go to school (even if we wanted to) because each of the 4 roads that ran around the dying lake our town was named for had all been washed out. For a kid it was all very exciting, and then a few years later it happened again. But for the lo