The continuous high winds and water levels threatening the many properties on Berrien County’s shorelines. However, right now, there’s not much they can do to fix the collapsed road with the water levels continuing to rise. Residents up and down the shore are noticing impacts from falling trees and staircases, and to other structures that have to be moved or face falling over a cliff.Krieger, a video editor who said he has worked on television shows including Catfish, began filming videos with his drone to document the impacts of high water on Lake Michigan. Residents have pointed out where beaches are shrinking, he said.Homeowners are split into a few different categories, he said: Those who attempt to save their homes at a great expense, and others who are paying to have them demolished instead.One home, just over the Indiana-Michigan border in the Michigan village of Michana, is one that appears to stick out into the water.The house is surrounded by boulders that extend the property out into Lake Michigan. Erosion undermines the front porch of a house along Lake Michigan's southwestern shoreline on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Stevensville, Mich. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP) Lake St. Clair also set all-time highs for several consecutive months.The Great Lakes Basin experienced its wettest 60-month period ending Aug. 31 in 120 years of record-keeping, according to corps records.But November brought a brief lull in rain that has been driving high water levels with below-average precipitation recorded for each lake, according to the Army Corps. Aug. 10, 2020, 6:47 p.m. He said he plans to watch as the erosion continues.His drone is not the only eye in the sky trained on the shoreline.Eighteen counties along a lakeshore have requested aviation and mapping support from the Michigan State Police including St. Clair, Wayne, Tuscola, Huron, Alcona, Arenac, Saginaw, Bay, Berrien, Van Buren, Lake, Mason, Ottawa, Muskegon, Oceana, Manistee, Leelanau, and Iosco, according to Emergency Management and Homeland Security Public Information Officer Dale R. George.Michigan State Police has flown a helicopter, recording video of the Lake Michigan shoreline, in November and December, he said.MLive has covered the impacts wreaking havoc up and down the shores of Lake Michigan.One home has fallen into the lake, and another near South Haven was torn down before it went over the edge of a bluff. All rights reserved.Read or Share this story: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/12/05/state-emergency-declaration-lake-michigan-shoreline-flooding/2625222001/ "Smothers says he's not sure if he'll stay in the area but mentioned his next home is not going to be along the lakeshore. "Although MSP has remained in frequent contact with county emergency managers along the lake shore, this morning the department reached out to all county emergency managers in the areas represented by the lawmakers’ request. Bruce Smothers spoke to our partners at WSBT-22 as crews demolished his house today on Notre Dame Avenue, and was asked about not being too emotional about it. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for the best Erosion Control in Stevensville, MI. A Stevensville-area home is being torn down, with the erosion from Lake Michigan to blame. Dune Lane in Stevensville, Mich. partially collapsed this past month from the battering waves. It's OK to disagree with someone's ideas, but personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, advocating violence and other violations can result in a ban. "© 2020 The Detroit News, a Digital First Media Newspaper. Aug. 10, 2020, 5:34 p.m. The erosion is obviously creeping in on his Stevensville home of 15 years. (Photo: Robert Franklin, AP) The continued high levels signal that winter storms could bring more coastal flooding and erosion. Of those, 315 are for work along Lake Michigan in the Lower Peninsula.Krieger said he has seen other places with drastic changes in the area of South Haven and at parks in Berrrien County, including Silver Beach.
The continuous high winds and water levels threatening the many properties on Berrien County’s shorelines. However, right now, there’s not much they can do to fix the collapsed road with the water levels continuing to rise. Residents up and down the shore are noticing impacts from falling trees and staircases, and to other structures that have to be moved or face falling over a cliff.Krieger, a video editor who said he has worked on television shows including Catfish, began filming videos with his drone to document the impacts of high water on Lake Michigan. Residents have pointed out where beaches are shrinking, he said.Homeowners are split into a few different categories, he said: Those who attempt to save their homes at a great expense, and others who are paying to have them demolished instead.One home, just over the Indiana-Michigan border in the Michigan village of Michana, is one that appears to stick out into the water.The house is surrounded by boulders that extend the property out into Lake Michigan. Erosion undermines the front porch of a house along Lake Michigan's southwestern shoreline on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Stevensville, Mich. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP) Lake St. Clair also set all-time highs for several consecutive months.The Great Lakes Basin experienced its wettest 60-month period ending Aug. 31 in 120 years of record-keeping, according to corps records.But November brought a brief lull in rain that has been driving high water levels with below-average precipitation recorded for each lake, according to the Army Corps. Aug. 10, 2020, 6:47 p.m. He said he plans to watch as the erosion continues.His drone is not the only eye in the sky trained on the shoreline.Eighteen counties along a lakeshore have requested aviation and mapping support from the Michigan State Police including St. Clair, Wayne, Tuscola, Huron, Alcona, Arenac, Saginaw, Bay, Berrien, Van Buren, Lake, Mason, Ottawa, Muskegon, Oceana, Manistee, Leelanau, and Iosco, according to Emergency Management and Homeland Security Public Information Officer Dale R. George.Michigan State Police has flown a helicopter, recording video of the Lake Michigan shoreline, in November and December, he said.MLive has covered the impacts wreaking havoc up and down the shores of Lake Michigan.One home has fallen into the lake, and another near South Haven was torn down before it went over the edge of a bluff. All rights reserved.Read or Share this story: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/12/05/state-emergency-declaration-lake-michigan-shoreline-flooding/2625222001/ "Smothers says he's not sure if he'll stay in the area but mentioned his next home is not going to be along the lakeshore. "Although MSP has remained in frequent contact with county emergency managers along the lake shore, this morning the department reached out to all county emergency managers in the areas represented by the lawmakers’ request. Bruce Smothers spoke to our partners at WSBT-22 as crews demolished his house today on Notre Dame Avenue, and was asked about not being too emotional about it. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for the best Erosion Control in Stevensville, MI. A Stevensville-area home is being torn down, with the erosion from Lake Michigan to blame. Dune Lane in Stevensville, Mich. partially collapsed this past month from the battering waves. It's OK to disagree with someone's ideas, but personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, advocating violence and other violations can result in a ban. "© 2020 The Detroit News, a Digital First Media Newspaper. Aug. 10, 2020, 5:34 p.m. The erosion is obviously creeping in on his Stevensville home of 15 years. (Photo: Robert Franklin, AP) The continued high levels signal that winter storms could bring more coastal flooding and erosion. Of those, 315 are for work along Lake Michigan in the Lower Peninsula.Krieger said he has seen other places with drastic changes in the area of South Haven and at parks in Berrrien County, including Silver Beach.