My cousin, Rachel Burk, 11, poses for a portrait in the flooded yard of our grandparents' lake house by Little Traverse Lake in Maple City, Michigan on June 26, 2020. At 581.96ft, Lake Michigan has hit a point 3ft higher than the previously recorded May 1986 record. This means that all across the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, established in 1970, the land is being flooded or eroded away in certain areas. This is because as the atmosphere continues warming from climate change, precipitation is increased and areas like the Sleeping Bear Dunes find themselves ill-prepared to handle the influx of water. At only around 100ft away from the border of the lakeshore, my grandparent's property is as subject to the rising water levels of Lake Michigan as the park as a whole is, leaving the yard flooded until the local watershed councils can vote on how to handle the situation.