Lake Ontario is flooding.

Lake Ontario is flooding. It's 18 inches higher than usual and isn't supposed to crest for a month or so, when they expect it to be 11 inches higher. They are sandbagging communities all along the coast east of here, although there's a spot very near this one with mobile homes and they are already flooded and almost cut off.

There used to be a beach, here. The trees and rocks and debris are shoved up against the drop off that's about 2 feet, there. You can see the color change in the water where the beach was. There's so much water that it's seeping into shallow standing patches all over in the grass going up the hill behind where I'm standing on what is now the shore. It's so bad that there were clouds of little black flies which just doesn't happen around there. It was like Northern Minnesota in the summer. If that doesn't dry up quickly, there are going to be clouds of nasty insects and mosquitoes. While I'm sure the birds will like that, none of the rest of us will.

Speaking of which, we saw a whole bunch of cormorants and one snow goose and a bunch of ducks flying by. They seem very pleased with their expanded wetland.

This will not be good for the farms and orchards along the Lake. They all have shallow standing water, and some of them have already lost trees. For some, they may not be able to plant, or their crops may drown. For others, the trees may not be able to produce or possibly survive. The wineries and grape growers are probably not thrilled, either.

Meanwhile, they are trying to get them to let more water out through the St. Lawrence Seaway, but apparently this would not be helpful in Southern Quebec, which is already flooded. This may be a very bad spring along the lake.

My phone camera is not awesome, so you have to zoom in to see it, but it was a very clear day and you can see Toronto very well across the lake.