He wants his lakeshore lawn back!

Water has been rising all summer on Lake Darling in Alexandria. We've noted it here a couple of times. Today we received a note and photos about a resident on a penninsula between the two bays of the lake. So, while the hurricane rages out East, taking sea shore and sand dunes with it, our friends in Alexandria toil with sand bags. Here's a note and pix from Tom Obert:

We checked on our friends, Pris and Paul, yesterday.  Their house is just to the left when you come to the "T" on Casa Marina Drive - on the point between Big and Little Darling.  

All summer the water has been increasingly rising with each new storm.  Paul started sand bagging some time ago - and then they brought in 5 dump truck loads of sand to build berms.  He has been telling us this all along - but until we were there yesterday, we had no idea that he had lost half his front yard!  You can see trees and bushes in the water that were once of course on land - and you can see the tops of the riprap (that used to mark the land/water boundary) about 20 feet out in the water.  
No one can recall this ever happening before.  Paul was on Lanigan's tractor when we pulled in, spreading sand - and when the water recedes (we hope!), he will have to put in a lot of fill to build up the property before he can reclaim a lawn.  And we do have hope - it has been a perfect weather week.