Edmond Fitzgerald - 50yrs ago today

mattie

Some really interesting documentaries out right now.
Blowing & snowing on the way to office today....

rasbury

It's 35 in the orlando area am...

captkevin

Snow in Chicago today & cold

PickleRick

Mid 20s in upstate South Carolina.  Had snow on the mountains.

For my son's senior spring break we're taking him to see the penguins play.  Tuesday we play Detroit in Pittsburgh 

Thursday we play lightning in Tampa. 

For some reason he wants to go see them in Pittsburgh, at the first of April.  Is he crazy?

We could make a day trip to the beach, eat fresh seafood.  Instead we can freeze 

Dream_Inn

@PickleRick
I can't blame him.  Nothing like a home hockey game!

rasbury

I read there were 35 ft waves on superior when she sank. Crazy. Do these fresh water lakes flood? Are their springs that feed them or strictly rivers and drainage? I know they are connected to the ocean via lawerence seaway or something- sitting in fl i really don't know much about them. I can imagine early explorers reaching them and thinking they found the pacific until they figured out they were fresh...

PickleRick

Seiches are common on lake Erie, the lake is basically pushed to one side.  Heavy rainfall or spring ice melt combined with a heavy winds/weather front can make it worse. 

Not sure about Superior. 

My dad grew up on what they called a "creek" up there (pronounced crick in yinzer fashion) which is a small river. 

At the end of their property there was a dam. Any year they would get flooding from the spring ice melt it would bring new toys for them.  Boats, docks, anything that floats.  





Haven't swam in that creek since I was about 15/16.  

This is maybe a 45min to hour drive to Erie if memory serves me correctly.   The water is cold enough to support trout, sadly the pollution from local mines killed them off long ago.  

My grandparents used that area as a park, charged per car during the summers until someone was either hurt or killed on a rope swing.   Unfortunately it's no longer in the family due to the state auctioning it off to pay for the assisted living and health care expenses my grandmother required over the last few years of her life.  A fine example of how our medical care facilities treat an elderly couple, one who fought in WW2 and both retired as state employees with full pension in the great state of PA 

Not far from this intersection, behind the tree line, was a slippery rock U frat house they rented out for many years.

Last time I went there, in my mid 20s there was still a guys and gals outhouse in the old park area.  

This place looks vastly different when winter hits.  

rasbury

That is terrible about them. No one should lose everything they have for medical issues.

Formulaben

PickleRick said:

My dad grew up on what they called a "creek" up there (pronounced crick in yinzer fashion) which is a small river. 

When I first moved to Idaho, I heard different bodies of water called both "creek" and "crick". 
It prompted the joke:
Q: "What's the difference between a creek and a crick?"
A: "It's a creek until you dun swum in it..." 

PickleRick said:

Haven't swam in that creek since I was about 15/16.  

I think you meant to say "swum".  

captkevin

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/arts/edmund-fitzgerald-gordon-lightfoot.html