Comment: very glad you grabbed your kids and got them safe. many drownings happen when one person goes into the water to rescue another and they both drown. i was raised in chicago up til pre teen. we'd swim in  lake michigan, which grosses me out looking back. but the great lakes are large enough that they  create their own weather, and it can change fast -  the "Edmund Fitzgerald  lake freighter.  
  we'd play in the water dodging all the dead fish -  alewives -mated,  croaked and rotting in the lake... by the thousands. you could smell the lake before every seeing it. we'd bounce the waves. basically a jumping game that kept you bobbing in the water. the great lakes have tides and there are rivers that run through them with strong currents. lake michigan has the reputation for being treacherous. many strong undertows, currents, tides...heard stories from many about drownings in lake michagan.
 clean up eugene is using dorfman. "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son"