The monsoon of 2011 continues.  Lake levels are at historic highs with little short term chance that they will recede.  Terms typically heard around river communities, like sandbagging, are becoming commonplace here in the Alexandria area.  Of the roughly 250 lakes in Douglas County, some 200 drain through the Chain of Lakes and ultimately through Lake Carlos on the way to the Long Prairie River.  Here on the Southeast corner of Lake Carlos, at the Blake complex, we have renamed our tennis court Lake Blake.  As the new header for my blog shows the tennis court and surrounding area are inundated.  Given that the water covering the court is basically at the water table until Lake Carlos goes down we will be “blessed” with an underwater tennis court.  So while the southwest looks at cracks in the ground and prays for rain we look for a couple of weeks of dry weather.