It just won’t stop. “Maybe this is the last one” I heard
them say. Will it be? Anything can happen at any time in this zone.
Of the 35 or so years I have been living in this area I have
seen snow in every month except July and the year before I moved up it snowed
on July 4th, killing my neighbor’s tomato plants. That was in the
early 80s, though, and while things can still get a little crazy we generally
don’t see any snowfall in June, July, or August.
Our official total from this last storm was 10 inches or 25
cm. It was(is) heavy and wet, but at least it made mud season disappear for a
couple of days. It is supposed to get above freezing every day for the coming
week so it should go away in a few days. Here is a picture from this morning.
The winds got a little stiff, too. I don’t think anything
much over 50 mph (80kph), but in Duluth they recorded some of 70mph (112kph).
It made for some big waves on the lake and while I wasn’t adventurous enough to
go out and do some crazy photography, other people were. These cliffs are about
40 feet (12 meters) high.
(Angela Botner Photography )
I have lived by the ocean and there are seriously huge
waves that can get going in some parts of the world, but we are on an inland
lake. Granted, it is a very large lake, as lakes go, but there are things that
happen in the ocean that are unbelievably amazing.
There
is a lighthouse on the Brittany Coast in France that is known for the waves.
There have been movies made about rogue waves, but the first one I remember was in the "disaster" genre called the Poseidon Adventure. One of my favorite magazines when I was a teenager and early adulthood was the literary giant, Mad Magazine. They did a hilarious satire of the movie called the Poopsidedown Adventure. It was the biggest selling month in Mad's illustrious, yet dubious, history selling 2.8 million copies! That issue cost 40 cents. CHEAP! I laughed until it hurt!
There have been movies made about rogue waves, but the first one I remember was in the "disaster" genre called the Poseidon Adventure. One of my favorite magazines when I was a teenager and early adulthood was the literary giant, Mad Magazine. They did a hilarious satire of the movie called the Poopsidedown Adventure. It was the biggest selling month in Mad's illustrious, yet dubious, history selling 2.8 million copies! That issue cost 40 cents. CHEAP! I laughed until it hurt!