GREAT LAKES MAKE WEATHER CHANNEL'S TROPICAL UPDATE?

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Hurricane Sandy 

Our thoughts are with the people on the East Coast who were hardest hit by this superstorm.

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Never thought I'd see the day when the Great Lakes made the Weather Channel's Tropical Update and Hurricane Central, but Sandy was 900 miles wide. Her swath hit from New York and New Jersey all the way to Chicago and north to the Arctic Circle. Her fringes spawned 74 mph winds kicking  the Great Lakes into waves two stories high that called a halt to shipping for two days.  

11am Update on Post Tropical Cyclone Sandy

Below are some links to Hurricane Sandy's affect on the Great Lakes.  

Lake Michigan waves in Chicago 
Lake Michigan 32 Ft. waves 
Lake Michigan storm surge
Chicago lake front
Great Lakes shipping
Lake Huron shipping
Lake Huron waves Sarnia Ontario

WINDS KICK UP HUGE WAVES ON LAKE HURON

Port Sanilac - Oct 29, 2012 -- Don-Sharon Frisch 
Great slideshow at WNEM Mid Michigan TV
Superstorm Sandy makes its mark on Mid-Michigan 

We live in interesting times. :)

Vivian

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY'RE CALLED "GREAT" LAKES? Part four, Lake Erie

Thanks to rabesphoto for this photo of a Frozen Lake Erie   

Throughout most of the 17th century the Iroquois tribes settled along Lakes Erie and Ontario prevented exploration of the the lower lakes. These fierce warriors meant torture and death to any Frenchmen who tried to pass through. Instead explorers used the rivers out of Lake Ontario and portaged into Lake Huron sending new explorations North to Lake Superior. It was not until 1669 that Louis Jolliet explored Lake Erie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Wars#Great_Peace_of_Montreal

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http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/page-39-eng.asp 

There are thirty one islands in Lake Erie from the island village of Put in Bay Ohio, known as a "party" island for young people, to the Canadian Pelee Island where there is a "fragile and unique ecosystem" with plants rarely found in Canada, and two endangered snakes, to Kelley's Island which offers beaches and hiking and biking and glacial grooves left in the limestone. There are also reports of a Lake Erie Monster seen in its waters. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_erie

At an average depth of only 62 feet, winds over Lake Erie quickly kick up strong waves and storm surges, leaving the Lake's floor littered with shipwrecks, that are perfectly preserved in the salt free, cold water.

 Thanks to Mtbangert for this photo of West Pierhead Lighthouse, Cleveland OH  

Thanks to Nicholas_T for this photo of Lake Erie bluffs, David M. Roderick Wildlife Reserve, Erie County PA

Erie carries the waters of Superior, Michigan, and Huron eastward across three states, and 241 miles later all that water suddenly plunges 173 feet into Lake Ontario, at a place called Niagara Falls. The most powerful waterfalls in North America, Niagara shrouds itself in a perpetual mist and rainbows. Expect a bad hair day if you ever visit them. 

At number six on Travel and Leisure's list of the World's Most-Visited Tourist Attractions, Niagara Falls' annual 22.5 million visitors beats out the Grand Canyon, all the Disney World Parks and even the Eiffel Tower in Paris France for tourists. 

Niagara is a spectacular sight and even the photos below cannot do it justice, so check out this link to a video of the Maid of the Mist––boats that carry tourists to the foot of the Falls. 
Niagara Falls Maid of the Mist  Thanks fiftytwopence.

View of the American Falls at Niagara 

Photo by Pluma of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side––Horsehoe Falls   Vivian