we made it to the lake today, slowly. the city is leaving the old path to disintegrate and fencing off by the swamp where i stepped on a spike last year. maybe the army corps will build a wall eventually. i wonder how tall it will need to be. they have to think of the unthinkable future. but that's not the way of bureaucracy. they'll probably just keep fencing off more and dumping asphalt waste and the human shore will continue to disintegrate.