The Witch of November

[Stinky The Clown]

Brace yourselves up there in the Great Lakes area. It was a storm like this in 1975 that cost 29 souls. Barometrically, it is the same as a serious hurricane. As I write this, Duluth is just above 28 millibars and dropping fast.

". . . . if she'd just have put 15 more miles behind her . . . ."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

[Brickbat]

1. I know an ore boat couldn't get around Wisconsin this a.m. and went back to safe harbor in Duluth.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Hopefully all is now well for that ship

[hedgehog]

2. I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my cheeks. I've often

wondered why that tragedy resonates so much for me. I think it's because in many ways it represents the end of an entire way of life. The Edmond Fitzgerald went down just as all the steel mills started closing and Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Youngstown started sliding. Every place my extended family worked then is gone now, and many of the mills have been replaced with empty fields.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I never made that connection either. The Gordon Lightfoot song is so haunting

And then there's the notion of a stout ship proving so unable to stand up when The Witch wants her. Many poeple think the Great Lakes are so benign because they're .... "lakes". They're inland seas with the ability to give as good as any body of water on Earth.

[Bitwit1234]

3. The US started way back then buying foreign products over

US products that's why the mills closed. My husband lost his job in Gary, Indiana when the steel mills there closed.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. It was, indeed, a time of great change.