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Article: WASHED AWAY; Swollen by rain, Lake Delton nearly empties, wrecking homes, damaging tourism hopes

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June 10, 2008
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Lake Delton -- It was Tom and Tina Pekar's dream home -- set on a little bay notched in the northeast corner of Lake Delton, just a couple of hundred yards from the Wisconsin River.

They moved there from Cudahy three years ago after retiring -- Tom taught math, Tina worked as a recruiter for Midwest Airlines -- and it sat on a beautiful spot.

On Monday, the house was a wreck, ripped from its site and tipped at a crazy angle where rain-swollen Lake Delton burst open, washing away three homes, shearing another in two and turning the once- sparkling body of water into a vast mud flat.

"It's unbelievable," Tom Pekar said, struggling for words Monday

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