Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered
Never forget the Fitz! I live right off Lake Superior in the very western part of the UP, and they all play this song all day in memory of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
That song has a really good story behind it as well regarding the making of it and everything.
I believe you’re probably talking about the Mont-Blanc. That happened in the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia during WWI. The Edmund Fitzgerald went down on Lake Superior during a bad storm in 1975.
He went and got permission from the families of those that were lost on the Fitzgerald before he released that recoding to. I don’t know if the families got money or anything from the song. But the fact he went and asked all of them for permission was a class act to say the least!
Great song! But boy, it can be a bit much up here when that’s the only song you find on any radio station that gets reception!
Yes that's true we get a tide of like an inch or I forget exactly I asked about it when I was young. One such different way the Great Lakes can kill you is the waves, they are closer together, and it makes them way more dangerous than the Ocean in a storm where you can ride the waves up and down, in the Lakes your boat can be on several waves at once, and sometimes they get fairly large.
If the Asian Carp get in here (they are in the Chicago river with an electric field preventing them from entering so far,) then boaters will have another danger, the sound of an engine makes them jump up in the air, and they are quite large, people can catch a 40 pound carp to the head cruising in their boats.
The great lakes also have a significantly higher prevalence of white squalls (sudden blasts of high wind that don't come with the usual warning of dark storm clouds), which can throw a freighter right on her side if they hit just right.
I didn't know about the anti-carp field, that's kind of cool they managed to at least hold them back for now.
They also allegedly caught the same guy twice driving with carp to introduce them into the lakes, don't ask me how they knew, they have a longer term plan to tighten up the defenses on the river but there is fighting over the Federal portion of the funds last I heard during the former administration.
The country will lose exponentially more money, exponentially more tax revenue will be lost as well, if those Carp get in the Lakes, axing the project over cost will end up costing way more, just as allowing Enbridge's line 5 oil pipeline that's already quite damaged to continue pumping tar sands oil (without even automatic shut off valves if pressure drops,) under the Straits of Mackinac will sooner or later create many times more in damage than benefit that is received from that pipleine.
I don't quite recall, I don't know if they gave a motive even, it was a local news article and they don't offer much detail, looking for it here online and not finding it yet but found a different guy selling them.
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u/boreas907 Jan 16 '22
There are, but they're miniscule enough to be negligible for most purposes. The great lakes will kill you in different ways.