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Fierce storms, high water gobble up Lake Superior's south shore


Fierce storms, high water gobble up Lake Superior s south shore
After several years of high water on the Great Lakes, residents and governments are scrambling to figure out what to do to combat Mother Nature s wrath. 
June 22, 2019 11:26pm
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PORT WING, WIS. - It starts with a crack in the lawn.
When Mike Briggs mows his front yard overlooking Lake Superior, he searches for signs of earth weakening below his feet.
Over the past four years, Briggs has watched cracks turn into mudslides as heavy rains, sustained high lake levels and battering storms gobbled up an estimated 75 feet of shoreline from the dream property that he and his wife Kathy bought more than two decades ago. The once sprawling lawn in front of their little log cabin is now just three swaths of a lawn mower deep. Instead of remodeling the memory-filled vacation home, as they had planned, the Cannon Fal ....

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