The snow fences are finally down at North Beach. The sand drifts have been pushed back to the beach. Now the huge piles need to be spread smoothly and then sculpted pristine by the wind. Preparations for summer are everywhere. Maintenance crews out in full force. Roads closed to repair the ravages of winter.
And then there are preparations behind closed doors. An obscure Lake Superior water level board will decide the water level for Superior. Lake Michigan water levels are too high. Up almost two feet from the historic averages they hope for. Two extra feet shrinks beaches and endangers homes. But Lake Superior water levels are too high as well… over a foot too high. And when Superior is high, they open the gates on the St Mary’s River, exacerbating the water levels for Lake Michigan (and Huron, really one lake).
Lake Superior has over 3 quadrillion gallons of water. Enough if spread evenly, to cover all of North and South America one foot deep. One single inch of water on Lake Superior equals 551 billion gallons. Mind boggling amounts of fresh water. Too much water. What a problem to have… in a fresh water starved world.
