Floating Home

So I'm tooling around the satellite view in Google Maps, as one does, and I'm scrutinizing Presque Isle up there in Erie, Pennsylvania and I see what look like a bunch of cottages in the middle of Horseshoe Pond.

"Huh," say I, "I wonder what's up with these?"

So I grab my little Street View dude and drop him on the Coast Guard Road that runs alongside the pond and sure enough, those are houses on pilings or floating homes of some sort.

Quick! To the Google!

And there I found this neat little story...

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