For thos who dont understand.Yes,I live right on the lake,the deck above the pic is my main floor,I can and do Bass fish off the main floor deck,There issuposed to be4 feet of sand beach just off the patio that is shown,now I have11/2 feet.That patio is 11/2 feet above normal water hight and I have basicaly 151 1/2 feet of water front witch is all rip rap(rocks weighing anywhere from 120 pounds to 3 pounds) protecting the shore line,with this unusal weather and low water leavelwhen the lake froze the expanding ice pushes the sand from the lake into the rip rap witch in return heaves up the property(the rock pushes in).
Yes its a price I pay to live this close on the lake,but not too many people can say they fish of the deck of thier house.
When my wife bought the house in 89 the ice went right thru that wall.Thats why there is a patio door and a big window there(thats where the bar is,by the way).I moved here in 96 and have never seen it this bad,normaly I just have to reset the rip rap,but this year is a bad one.To get someone out here to fix this and my shore would run about 7 grand.
The bad thing is,is that I have to carry every one of thous pavers and block up the stairs and pill up in the yard and then move them back down after I get my shore fixed and the sand leaveled out.....
Yep got my hands full this spring>hopefully it wont push up anymore.