The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #6997   Message #42504
Posted By: Steve
20-Oct-98 - 07:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lake George, 1922 (Teresina M. Huxtable)
Subject: RE: Great Lakes
Did anyone catch the documentary on the Edmund Fitzgerald last night on The Discovery Channel? It was pretty good and I thought factual. As I've noted before, I live in Virginia and people here don't understand the Great Lakes- as most haven't been in that area They just don't realize that a storm on those lakes can be just as bad if not worse than on the Chesapeake. I recall, having lived in Port Clinton, the very bitter winters and especially the massive ice jams that built up along the shore of Lake Erie. I lived there when Island Airlines still flew a Ford Tri-motor and on a cold winter's day you could look up and see it headed for Put-in-Bay- it was like living in Antarctica.