A Wisconsin Lake Drained in About 2 Hours — and Took 5 Homes With It

In this video: • Why homes sitting about 1.5 feet lower than the dam crest were the lake's easiest way out • 12–16 inches of rain in two weeks over northern Sauk County — a 1,000-year event • Headward erosion: how a trickle on the river side ate its way back to the lake • A canyon about 700 feet long, carved in one morning through ice-age sand • $0 from flood insurance, a lost lawsuit, and a sealing wall driven 120+ feet down to sandstone • How the lake was rebuilt and refilled in about ten months ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 The Morning the Ground Moved 3:10 Outside the Flood Zone 5:03 Every River at Once 7:26 Five Houses 9:38 Sand From the Ice Age 11:32 The Court Case 13:53 Fromm Bay #LakeDelton #Wisconsin #Erosion