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The Witch of November

Frankfort Lighthouse by Jim Sorbie

We had quite some wind early this week. Jim took this photo of the Frankfort Lighthouse with the waves crashing across the pier and wrote:

"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy"
-Gordon Lighfoot

Lake Michigan in a full gale, winds steady at 32, gusts to 45, glad I wasn't out there.

32 years ago tomorrow, 29 men lost their lives in an even fiercer November storm aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. Over on Absolute Michigan we have a video titled The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Joseph Fulton that anyone who remembers that storm would definitely appreciate … I'm guessing that even folks who don't remember it would too.

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