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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes regional team and the National Weather Service’s Detroit team have simulated wave height during the Great Storm of 1913.
The storm sunk 12 boats and killed 250 people.
Great Lakes storm fans have a chance this year to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the worst to ever hit.
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 is widely considered to be the defining tragedy of the region. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the storm that claimed the lives of more than 250 people and destroyed 19 ships. Now that tragedy is coming to the stage. “The Great Storm,” a play directed by Warren L. Robinson, follows the stories of two families whose worlds are shaken by the disaster. The play is part of the three-month long “A Remembrance of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913“ event, established by the Port of Goderich in Ontario and a group of volunteers in the Lake Huron community.
The Great Storm of 1913, os one of the defining moments in Michigan’s weather history.
People can examine that storm in the Michigan Historical Museum’s exhibit, “Lake Effects,” on Oct. 5.
The town is a designated “harbor of refuge” by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
A book about the salvaging business in the Great Lakes sat unread for over 50 years. Now its story will be told again.
Last week I covered the release of an animated model of an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac. The greatest question it prompted in my mind: Why didn’t we do that? I’ll grant that the researcher who put that one together had studied Great Lakes currents for 30 years. Journalists aren’t going to replicate that kind of expertise. But journalists aren’t expected to generate the data.
It was a busy year for Echo; after all, it was the year of Michigan’s wolf hunt and the year of the Great Lakes Storm’s centennial anniversary. We look back at the year’s stories that got the most views.
Just in time for the 100th anniversary, Great Lakes author Michael Schumacher has penned “November’s Fury,” a comprehensive account of the devastating Great Storm of 1913.