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Lake Minnewaska is higher than most have ever seen it. My good neighbor Scott called me on Friday to tell me that my boat was floating off the lift. I had a wedding to attend on Saturday (not mine) but weather was benign so I figured I was OK going up Sunday and that proved to be true. I was going to trailer up my boat and then lash the dock decking down against waves. Weather in MN never stays benign for long.

Turned out my good neighbors on the other side were up, so we had a hell of a good time socializing -- and I did get my boat off the lift and trailered up.

There was a storm early Sunday morning. I pretty much slept thru it. I had a window open and got rained on, so I closed the window and went to a dry bed on the other side of the cabin to finish sleeping. It ain't like there's never been a thunderstorm before.

Turns out it was quite a storm I slept thru other than to shut the window and move to a dry bed.

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My dock got disassembled by high water and big waves, so did Ted's. We managed to retrieve all of the parts of both his and my dock, working together in the lake up to our necks at times. Inconvenient to be sure, but no significant harm done. We were lucky. I'm sure glad my boat was safely trailered the day before.

We got off easy. Ted had some tree damage that will need professional attention, but no big deal. On the south side of the lake there were lift canopies ripped, lifts and boats and docks flipped, damaged boats left in damaged trees. State Hwy 28 was under water by the fairground in Glenwood.

Power was out so we couldn't even make coffee, and condx made going fishing out of the question. So we cleared out our fridges into coolers and went home. We each and both could have made coffee without electricity and subsist indefinitely if we wanted to. We're both quite experienced at primitive camping, old enough to prefer more comfort.

Nights with no lights were more fun when I had a partner.

I may be dockless for the rest of the season. Old timers say the lake will continue to rise for a few days and it won't go down anytime soon.

That won't materially impair my enjoyment of my cabin. I can launch and retrieve my boat at the marina, no prob. Done it hundreds of times. The key part of enjoying my cabin is fellowship with family, friends and amazingly good neighbors. The neighbors treat me like family. They were very fond of Mary and they knew she liked me.

Planned family guests won't have much luck fishin' off the dock since there won't be a dock, but they never did much of that anyway. We'll have a good time. Swimmin' is good to excellent.

Hokay, I'm checked in.

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Don Foreman
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By the look of that video it was real lucky you got your boat out in time!

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Dennis

Don Foreman on Tue, 02 Aug 2011

03:34:24 -0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

As someone said in the video "firewood" Although I'm always inclined to see if boards can be salvaged - even if that is more of a project than I want to get into.

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pyotr filipivich

I've seen estimates of 70 to 75 mph but I doubt if anyone knows what they were on the south shore of Minnewaska. I'm on the north shore. When storms happen, the south shore and east end (Glenwood) get pounded.

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Don Foreman

Starting a day facing the aftermath beats laying awake all night worrying.

Glad you are okay,

Wes

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Wes

--teensy snip--

Ayup.

What, no surfing the big waves? Yer slippin', Don.

Glad everything is OK.

-- Win first, Fight later.

--martial principle of the Samurai

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Larry Jaques

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