New Custom Construction • Mid-Summer Completion Date

5 bedroom, 7 bathroom lake home on 1.5 acres with beautiful lake views on north end of Lake Lanier. Short walk to 32 x 32 double slip aluminum dock. Open concept plan for easy entertaining. Every bedroom has a view of lake. Master on main with luxurious bathroom, free-standing soaking tub, steam shower, body sprayers, heated floors, make-up station and VIP suite, LED vanity mirrors, your own washer and dryer & spacious built-in California closet design (light and mild wood grain in off-white and silver hues from floor to ceiling, his and hers shoe closets, decorative glass doors, accent backlight, drawers, medicine cabinet, hamper, various clothes hanging heights and heavenly white carpet!). Home features include: smart home, custom chefs kitchen with solid cabinets, 48" gas range, dual fridge and freezer, coffee maker station, 11 ft island with seating on 3 sides and upgraded trim package, solid core 8' doors,10 ft ceilings and solid hardwoods on 1st and terrace level. Finished terrace level with 12' ceilings includes: full 2nd kitchen for lake entertaining, wine cellar, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, family room with fireplace & game room and bunk room. This property offers tremendous flexibility, both outdoors and inside, for the maximum enjoyment of just about any activity or hobby and is the most extraordinary property for entertaining friends and family at the lake. All bedroom baths have showers tiled to the ceiling, all glass door showers, handheld sprayers. Modern matte black fixtures throughout. Smart technology designed with 1-gig high-speed internet, state-of-the-art interior and exterior. This home is also equipped with an EV charging outlet and is pre-wired for a whole-home generator, pool and security cameras. Spray insulation, batts and ceiling insulation between floors for noise reduction. No HOA. There is so much more in this house! $3,860,000

What I’m concerned about: warm ocean waters

I hope you are enjoying your summer. July was quite the weather month, as you may know. Almost daily in the national news we saw so many temperature and rainfall records being set. Beginning in the south-central United States, though much of the Southwest, heat records that have stood for more than 250 years were shattered. Nearly 100 people have perished so far. Meanwhile, Chicago was getting hammered with long-track tornadoes. While tornado season in North Carolina is March and April, it too had long-track tornadoes in July! In the northeast, we saw unprece-

Glenn Burns Lanier Outlook

dented rainfall, especially in Vermont. Montpellier recorded 10 inches of rain in one day. And heavy rainfall continued for the next 10 days. The flooding was so extensive, the governor declared a state of emergency. All we heard from residents enduring the endless string of extremes was, “we’ve never seen anything like this before.”

My neighbor asked me the other day what kind of extreme weather might we see as we head into August. I’ve had my mind on just that.

In July the most favored area for tropical development is the Gulf of Mexico and off the Southeast coast. This season, the storms have been forming off the west coast of Africa. They usually don’t form in this area until late August or September. Climatology tells us in August the same areas are prone to tropical development with the area around the Caribbean expanding.

I have been looking at some weather extremes over the ocean. Oceanographers are measuring record high sea surface temperatures. I also observed them. I grew up in south Florida. The warmest ocean temperatures I’ve ever seen have been in the upper

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