PHOTO OP ED:Storm winds blow and a rising lake threatens Port Washington shore facilities

January 15, 2020

What’s missing from the photo above? The answer is the concrete breakwater on which the Port Washington lighthouse sits. It was underwater when the picture was made on Jan. 9, not as a result of waves breaking over the lighthouse, but because the lake level had risen higher than the breakwater. The already record-high lake was pushed up along the shore by strong southeasterly winds.

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PHOTO OP ED:Storm winds blow and a rising lake threatens Port Washington shore facilities