[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/extraneous comments from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] Or water accumulation needing a few minutes to equalize. Or wind blowing water toward shore delaying equalization. Or combination thereof. Check out the shallow beach in Terrace Bay for this sort of thing. Chuck Holst wrote: >I once experienced a storm surge on Lake Superior. I was camped with >friends on a low beach in a bay in Pukaskwa National Park when a rainstorm >passed by the mouth of the bay. Suddenly the water rose several inches and >swirled onto the beach, putting out the fire in the Coleman double-burner >stove I was cooking dinner on. The water remained high several minutes, >then slowly drained away. I always assumed that low pressure associated >with the rainstorm caused the surge. An alternate explanation would be the >wake from an ore or grain ship that was over the horizon. However, Pukaskwa >is far from the shipping lanes, so that explanation seems unlikely. > >Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 27 2002 - 11:00:12 PST
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