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The view from inside the living room
A Black Lake resident would argue —Pictures don't do it justice. We are watching slabs of ice the size of refrigerators punch through our windows and come to rest on our floors, with brown floodwater lapping at the foundations of homes, garages, and sheds. This isn't an abstract weather story or a chart on a screen — it's families bailing out living rooms while spring rain keeps falling and the lake keeps rising. Whatever the long-term policy conversation, the immediate reality is that an ordinary thaw season is now capable of shoving the lake into our houses, and the people living through it deserve to be the center of the story, not a footnote to it.