Lake Delton, WI - GONE

[Cryozombie]

(CNN) -- When the water of Lake Delton ripped through the highway and drained into the Wisconsin River this week, so did the lifeline for much of the surrounding community.
Lake Delton Village and Wisconsin Dells, the self-professed "waterpark capital of the world," are home to about 5,000 residents. But the area's motels, resorts and vacation homes can accommodate more than 10 times that, according to the visitors bureau.
Innkeepers, restaurateurs and other business owners were getting ready for the typically bustling tourist season this week when torrential rains sent the 267-acre lake rushing through an embankment propping up Highway A. The manmade lake sucked a 200-foot swath of highway and a half-dozen homes into the Wisconsin with it.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/11/lake.delton/index.html

Aparently the lakebed is now an empty hole in the ground filled with rotting fish... Video of the homes being swept away is... tragic...[

The lake was home to white and largemouth bass, walleye, crappie, bluegill and perch, but those fish are now in the Wisconsin River after their habitat burst through the Highway A embankment.

"Fishing might be gone for the next four or five years," Brown predicted.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Damn....

 

[Kacey]

Wow.... that's just horrible.

 

[arnisador]

I saw this in the Chicago Tribune. We go to Wisconsin Dells often and this will be a big problem for them.