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The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was first noticed on Thursday, November 6 on the western side of Lake Superior, moving rapidly toward northern Lake Michigan.The weather forecast in The Detroit News predicted "moderate to brisk" winds at the Great Lakes with occasional rain on Thursday night or Friday for the upper lakes (except southern Lake Huron) and fair-to-unsettled conditions for the lower ...
The storm system that produced the flood in late March 1913 began with a typical winter storm pattern, but developed characteristics that promoted heavy precipitation. Strong Canadian winds stalled a high-pressure system off Bermuda and delayed the normal easterly flow of a low-pressure system.
1913 grain Goderich, Ontario: 410,000 22 Hydrus: 4,700 416 50 1903 iron ore Goderich, Ontario [citation needed] 136,000 [citation needed] 27 [1] SS John A. McGean [1] 5,100 452 52 1908 coal Sturgeon Point, Michigan 240,000 22 [1] Charles S. Price: 6,322 524 54 1910 coal Port Huron, Michigan: 340,000 28 Regina: 1,956 249 42.5 1907 steel pipe ...
The Great Flood of 1913 severely affected Columbus, Ohio. The area most affected was Franklinton , also known as the Bottoms, for its low elevation near the Scioto River . Among many infrastructure projects, a 7.2-mile floodwall was built from 1993 to 2004 to protect most of Franklinton from flooding.
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 (historically referred to as the "Big Blow", the "Freshwater Fury", and the "White Hurricane") was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada, from November 7 to 10, 1913. The storm was most powerful on November 9 ...
The Mataafa Storm of 1905 is the name of a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November 27–28, 1905. [12] The system moved across the Great Basin with moderate depth on November 26 and November 27, then east-northeastward across the Great Lakes on November 28.
Tuesday, March 25, 1913 Midnight—The Dayton police are warned that the Herman Street levee was weakening, and they start the warning sirens and alarms. 5:30 am—City engineer Gaylord Cummin reports that water is at the top of the levees and is flowing at 100,000 cubic feet per second (2,800 m 3 /s), an unprecedented rate.
List of shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm This page was last edited on 12 March 2023, at 10:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...