Reflections from Crumbly Acres: muskoka flood photos

Highway #11 between Highway 60
and Muskoka Road 3

Huntsville

There is no way to figure out WHO took these photos. They float in cyberspace on Facebook, posted and reposted, with many making photo collections they have scrounged.

I would like all to know how hard all of these towns are being hit by this runoff and rainfall.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Seven cottage country communities have declared emergencies, including Bancroft, the Burnt River area of the City of Kawartha Lakes, Minden Hills, South Algonquin Township, Hunstville, Bracebridge and Markstay-Warren. Last week, warm weather combined with more than 50 mm of rain caused waterways to rise rapidly.

There are many towns, not just with cottagers, but people who live here year-round, and depend upon the tourism in a three-season economy.

Beer store

For that reason I thought it important to demonstrate the magnitude of the damage, especially since I've been blogging about Muskoka for so long. When I lived there, I was the Muskoka blog queen!
The stories are very sad.

Buttermilk Falls Dam, Hwy 35

Stephanie's basement: Lake of Bays

Buttermilk Falls Dam, Hwy 35

" There is one woman who is drying out her photos and is thankful to have just gotten those out of her house. She says the memories she has from all the trips she has taken, of everything in her house other than family and pets her photos are all she wanted to get out. She had 3 boxes of waterproof photo boxes and those were all fine, but one box just in a large shoebox of photo`s needs to be dried out."

Some are funny.
"best flood story so far -- Terry Glover saw a fish swim across Brunel Road at Baysville."