New drone footage making the rounds on social media has starkly captured how erosion of the Lake Michigan shoreline can threaten properties.

Nathan Voytovick is the owner of Nate’s Dronography, which has wowed Facebook users with its videos of Southwest Michigan since 2016. He tells us he filmed erosion along Mizpah Park Drive in Hagar Township on Wednesday after being hired by a homeowner to capture the danger her home is facing as the bluff erodes. He says even he was surprised by what he saw.

“Erosion has been a problem for a while, but I was shocked how much it had progressed and how little she really had left, though,” Voytovick said. “That’s why I asked, ‘Can I post this video? You hired me to do a job, but you want me to post this and get some attention to the matter?’ And they said absolutely.”

The footage shows a high bluff eroded to within just feet of the home. Voytovick isn’t sure if anyone is now living there, but says it doesn’t seem like a safe idea right now. The property owner wanted the footage as she seeks to hire a firm to help protect the property.

Voytovick says he’s shot the shoreline all the way from New Buffalo to St. Joseph, and this was pretty bad.

“I’ve been kind of filming the erosion for years — Stevensville, back when Lincoln Township Beach was a thing — because it’s just, to me it’s intriguing, but it’s also devastating.”

Voytovick says he remembers shooting St. Joseph’s famous “car graveyard” a few years ago. That was an attempt to stop shoreline erosion back in the 1960s. Homes had already been destroyed, so a man had the idea of pushing more than 230 junked cars off the embankment to break the lake’s waves. Voytovick says the funny thing about that is it actually kind of worked.

You can see the latest footage of bluff erosion at the Facebook page of Nate’s Dronography. His car graveyard footage is there, too.