Birthplace of America slowly sinking

John Herdan writes: Here's a picture of Obert's dock and pontoon this morning. (below)  The boat is floating up into the cover.  Here is also a picture of my neighbor's dock on Latoka. (above)  It was taken BEFORE 4 more inches of rain this morning.


Stan writes:

We awoke to an amazing cacophony of thunder boomers shaking the old red farmhouse on Lake Chippewa near Brandon yesterday morning. Lightning bolts flashed again and again as waves of rain belted the vintage attic roof over my bed. Then a brief power outage.
The best part of a power outage in an old-fashioned house in the middle of a cornfield with no tv or microwave is. . . there is nothing to reset.
As reported weeks ago on this newsy weather blog, the water level in the famous Alexandria Chain 'o Lakes is at record height. On Saturday afternoon we were unable to float a pontoon boat under the bridge connecting Lakes Carlos and Darling. Not sure why we needed to go over to Carlos in the first place. Swimming was great where we were, but, you know, you've got a motor and gas, so.
Well, yesterday's mega-storm brought even more buckets of rain as we sat later with mother, watching the downpour from her Clearwater Suite. A breathless aide reported that thunder reverberations had tilted all the pictures hanging on a neighbor's wall, adding to the day's excitement in the snug rest home.
The storm also brought a couple of emails from frustrated Alexandria lakeshore property owners, notifying blog hosts of the havoc created by these historic water levels. We present them here as evidence that Alexandria, the Nation's Birthplace, may one day be the site of the The Next Great Lake.
Submitted photos show the inundated Obert and Herdan dockage, along with comments that seem to border on whining.

Tom Obert writes from the Lake Darling Shoreline. Readers should note that the Moby is Tom's name for his boat which has risen tight under its canopy. 
Thunderstorms started early this morning - one after another ripped through here. Thunder was rattling the house. We are not done yet. But I was able to dash out during an interlude and get a picture of the dock now under water and the Moby floating loose under the canopy - and discovered another3 3/4 inches in the rain gauge. I believe we have received 14 inches of rain since July 1 - the Resorters golf tournament was suppose to start today, but I assume the course is under water. Even before this last deluge, they had to rebuild the cart path from the 8th tee to the fairway because it was under water. We have called in the troops requesting that whenever they are available to come and take out a section of dock and move the Moby lift to much shallower water (if possible).