The Great Lakes are RAGING!!!

[Siwsan]

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Yowzers!

[catbyte]

2. Marquette is crazy.

[GiqueCee]

3. Probably not...

... a good day to go sailing.
I'm guessing this crap is headed for Vermont. Shit.

[Topomi]

4. Storm

My Bandit nor Brutus would go more than half normal walk. Storming woods scared them. Chihuahuas probably smarter than me. Limbs were rained on then 5" or so of snow on top.Back indoors with their morning chew with roaring fire in stove. Good day to vacuum and mop the shack.

[wolfie001]

5. Edmund Fitzgerald conditions

[MiHale]

6. Kinda looks like that here in Hale...

Not as high of winds …there are time we can’t see across the street. Thank god we got rid of the ice that came yesterday off the driveway … almost a half inch. It will make shoveling easier today.

Edited to add.
I’m tired of winter already…so far…had to clear roof of a couple feet of snow…then dig trenches to keep the water away from the house…cleared more snow…battled ice on walkway and driveway. Waiting for this bomb cyclone to pass. Then clear downed limbs and more snow…FTS.

[NJCher]

9. That boggles my mind

I cannot fathom a couple feet of snow on the roof.

Nor how to even get rid of it.

The trenches, too.

Now please, sit back in an easy chair and have a big mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows.

[prismpalette]

11. Roof rakes

We have roof rakes. A very long(telescoping) handled rake that sort of looks like a hay rake that we use to pull snow off the roof or push it off. It is a real tool and very necessary when snow weight builds. Available at all hardware stores in the UP.

[MiHale]

14. A tool like a reverse shovel on a telescopic pole...

You get it as high on the roof as you can then pull down the load. Most important lower to the edge of the roof by the gutters, if present. Left alone it is ok if the roof can handle the load. But toward the edge ice forms from any melt that happens, that can lead to what’s known as an ‘ice dam’. That blockage may lead to water getting under the shingles and into the framing of the house, causing ceiling leaks. Best to remove the snow.

My house is down from the road about 30 feet.the slope is approximately 20 degrees. I have trench’s dug at the house end of the driveway to divert water runoff to the side and around the house. Also little diverter trenches at various spots up the drive to the street. I installed a dry well catchment on the the worst side of the drive sunk a perforated 20 gallon drum down there…filled with gravel. But all these trenches must be cleared when ice and snow comes. This is to protect the garage from being flooded.

Fun stuff!

[Siwsan]

10. We had heavy rain, yesterday. Today is windy with snow showers

The winds aren't scary strong - yet - but there are reports of arching wires/power lines down. I'm not seeing many outages in this part of Michigan but it's early. Lots of car accidents so today will be spent hunkered down with the kid cats.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. lake Gitche Gumee

is again.

[Marcuse]

8. Surf's up on Lake Erie!

[VGNonly]

12. Seiche on Lake Erie

The Toledo end could lose 6' water level SW to the NE towards Buffalo (12' gain). I'm in NW Ohio, winds are gusting up to 40 mph. The temperature late yesterday was 58, right now down to 18 with a chance of some snow showers.

[AverageOldGuy]

13. What about shipping?

I assume ships are in or headed for safety?

[LisaM]

16. They have made a lot of changes since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.

There hasn't been a similar shipwreck since.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/11/09/edmund-fitzgerald-shipwreck-legacy-continues-50-years-later

[Ziggysmom]

15. Wow that's horrible. I grew up on a farm on the shore of Lake Michigan. Pop was a WWII Navy

Vet. He always said storm waves on the Great Lakes can be worse than the open ocean.
The waves can be more dangerous because they are steeper, and closer together with a shorter time in between wave crests, and can form from multiple directions. Makes my stomach turn just imagining working in conditions like that.

There’s a cool website that shows all Great Lakes and seaway shipping, even the vessel locations.

https://boatnerd.com/

I pray all the mariners and crews stay safe and this nasty weather ends.