LFP CAUTION! 9/30/11! Lots of Water!

Lakefront Path at Oak Street curve (just South of Oak Street Beach) has waves pushing up to the wall (as in, no getting around it). Be careful. I had water pushing up to the bottom of my frame for much of the curve.

At the time, it was still rideable. If you decide to go that route, be patient. My advice is to avoid and go to streets at Oak Street.

Also, just South of Fullerton, have to take the high path and was very crowded with runners and bikers and there was even standing water on the high path.

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Permalink Reply by millenial removing Bernie tattoo on September 30, 2011 at 8:02am

I got knocked off my bike by a wave at the curve once. Do never test.

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Permalink Reply by S.Presley☠ on September 30, 2011 at 8:08am

Sitting here earlier drinking coffee and saw the waves in the back ground of the traffic report. I was like... "I don't care about the traffic, get the graphic off the screen so I can see those waves on the LFP".

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Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on September 30, 2011 at 8:08am

If anybody happens to take some pictures..would love to see..

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Permalink Reply by M48 on September 30, 2011 at 8:47am

Fox has a live feed on their morning news. You can almost hear them betting under the table who gets knocked over. Just now, a guy almost got sucked into the lake... they all gasped... they don't find it funny anymore.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on September 30, 2011 at 8:49am

I would have taken pictures, but I got completely soaked and my droid is now dead. Kicking myself but at least I'm in one piece. Bummer.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Courtright on September 30, 2011 at 8:51am

We live dangerously in so many waves (I mean ways...). Hope the Droid dries out and starts working again...

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Permalink Reply by Carter O'Brien on September 30, 2011 at 8:52am

hey, someone beat me to it - it wasn't all that bad as I was approaching that curve, but I had the misfortune of getting literally picked up and turned upside-down by the water after it crashed into the LSD wall. Easily a foot deep, it almost completely rose above my front wheel. I actually would have been just fine and made it were it not for the bloody joggers all clustering there making it impossible to just go straight through. As soon as I had to alter my path to avoid the ones busy dancing around worrying about their feet getting wet I lost my momentum.

And no, it's not funny at all, I literally was submerged 100% under water - mark my words, the City/Park District is going to get sued into the 4th dimension if they don't take that problem seriously and get the Army Corp of Engineers on it.

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Permalink Reply by Moc Artsy on September 30, 2011 at 9:12am

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Huge_Waves_Knock_Down_LSD_Bike...

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Permalink Reply by Ace Mann on September 30, 2011 at 9:21am

You can follow real time updates from riders on the path & activetrans on twitter @activetransLFT

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on September 30, 2011 at 9:58am

Holy smokes. I was thinking of riding LFP this morning to take advantage of the NW winds. I'm glad I decided against that....

Moc Artsy said:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Huge_Waves_Knock_Down_LSD_Bike...

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Permalink Reply by leyzdoo on September 30, 2011 at 10:38am

Gapersblock.com posted this photo from the NBC video referenced by Moc Artsy above. But if a picture tells a thousand words, I can't even begin to count the words that the video tells. Reminds me of trying to tackle this section after the first winter freezes.

High waves over taking #LakeShoreDrive in #Chicago! @NBCChicago's chopper captured this biker getting knocked over: