It's been an interesting summer for weather in and around Wauwatosa, even before the historic rain and flooding Aug. 9 and 10 that helped pushed the season into the record books.
Bald-faced hornets, a species of yellowjacket or wasp, have built a nest in the right ear of Mama Rosa, the troll statue at Wauwatosa's Firefly Grove Park.
At Currie Park, "nearly every hole was affected by the flooding, including fallen trees and tree limbs on many holes," and Hansen Park faced a similar scenario.
Metro Mountain Bikers maintains a network of trails in Milwaukee County, and the trails at Hoyt Park sustained some of the "worst damage we had in our system."
The building and the ice arena at Hart Park date to the 1940s, but on Aug. 10, "in just a few hours, the Menomonee River stole what took us decades to build."
The iconic landmark in Tosa Village, the city's oldest commercial building, became an island surrounded by the floodwaters of the Menomonee River on Aug. 10
