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Subject: Re: The Legend Lives On

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John

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Date Posted: 22:09:00 11/11/15 Wed
In reply to: Wes 's message, "The Legend Lives On" on 13:32:30 11/11/15 Wed

>Another column picked up from the paper:
>
>The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of
>the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee . . .
>
>Yes, believe it or not, this week it's been forty
>years since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in
>a "witch of November" storm on Lake Superior, leaving
>behind a legend that echoes on down to us today, at
>least partly in thanks to Gordon Lightfoot's ballad.
>
It is interesting that we have high wind warnings in the Midwest tonight and tomorrow with violent thunderstorms with this being 40 years later. It makes one wonder, will we have a repeat. I just looked at the radar [10 pm est on 11/11/2015] and the storm moving into Lake Michigan is not any pussycat.

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John
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Date Posted: 22:35:20 11/17/15 Tue

There was a historical note in my local paper about a 'fresh water fury' on November 13, 1918 where 8 ships sank on the Great Lakes. Approximately 200 sailors were lost in the storm. It is amazing you do not hear more about that storm, but the Edmund Fitzgerald is more of our era. There are not many people alive that were alive then and fewer still those that could remember it. Maybe in another 60 years the Fitzgerald will almost be forgotten too.