Sandy Continues To Pound Lake Mich. Shore

Winds from Superstorm Sandy continued to pound Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan shoreline Tuesday.And, it’s help revive a debate about the environment.

Workers in the Kenosha County village of Pleasant Prairie shoveled sand into sandbags around noon yesterday, to prepare for the storm possibly causing flooding in a low-lyinglakeside neighborhood.Village Public Works Director John Steinbrink says since last night, about 35-hundred sandbags were prepared for the public.

“We’re giving them every resource to make their property as safe as possible,” he says.

But by the afternoon, the winds of Sandy weakened and Pleasant Prairie called off a voluntary evacuation advisory.Still, many people living near Lake Michigan between Kenosha and Milwaukee came outto admire and photographthe 5-to-10 foot waves.

At Wind Point near Racine,Sharon Pittsley said she’s convinced that global climate change helped make the point windier than usual.”Climate change at work? Definitely,” she said.

But another lakeside visitor, who gave his name as George, says it was just a windy day, not a sign of climate change.

The destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy out East has climate activists calling on the presidential candidates to pay more attention to warming oceans and greenhouse gas emissions.