storm on the Lakes

Listmates: Wow, it has been a big blow all night on Saginaw Bay, over on Lake Huron where the other boat lives. The weather instruments out on the tower light at the entrance to the navigation channel in the Bay show that the winds were steadily > 40 knots (> 46 mph) all night and into this morning. Things are a bit calmer now. The winds dropped under 40 knots at 7:00 a.m. To examine the weather data, check here and click on "combined plot of wind speed, gust, and air pressure." It's an amazing graph--shows 0 knots on 10/18 rising to gusts of 58 knots the next day, as pressure plummeted in inverse relationship. > http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=SBLM4 When the wind blows from the NE, it's straight down the Bay, and there's a large rise in water levels at the SW end of the Bay. The increase in water level plus the large waves makes for excitement on the shoreline. I have a little summer cottage there. A neighbor who lives there year-round reported her seawall steps had washed away and there was a lot of debris, plus a lot of water coming over the walls as waves struck and splashed. I am hoping that my steel seawall steps are still in place. I always remove them for the winter but that was a project for next weekend. Oops. I'm also hoping my roof shingles haven't blown off--I lost a few this spring is a lesser storm. Chris Campbell