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Have a sign from Grand Marais, MI that’s haunted me since childhood
Have a sign from the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove, NS
i’m sorry but this was way too badass and terrifying to keep in the tags
FRIENDS!!
ANDY ROBINSON IS COMING TO MY STATE!! FOR A CON!! IN APRIL!!! HE WILL BE THREE HOURS AWAY FROM ME!!!!
I’m gonna TRY to go. Mostly, I need a ride down there and then money, of course. I have other things to spend money on, but he might never be this close to me again!
I know this is about ecological balance and population control but I can’t help but imagine those wolves are on a covert mission to assassinate moose extremists or some shit
Favorite story from my archives: The most beautiful parking garage in the world is in Detroit, Michigan.
Detroit’s former Michigan Theater is now an office building and a parking garage.
The building as it looks today, still has offices on the upper floors.
The Michigan theatre was built in 1926 at a cost of $5 million, close to $60 million today.
Designed to leave visitors in awe of its magnificence, the 1,000 square foot showplace boasted more than 4,000 seats, ten foot crystal chandeliers and lavish gilding.
By the 50s and 60s, after changing ownership several times, the theatre began hosting less glamorous events such as screenings of hockey games. By the early 1970s it became a nightclub and in 1976 it closed.
There were plans for demolition b/c the office bldg. next door needed parking.
However, studies proved that the theater couldn’t be knocked down, b/c it was an integral part of the office building’s structure.
And so the decision was made to gut the auditorium, making enough room for three-level parking garage, leaving the ornate ceilings, the grand lobby, parts of the mezzanine, staircase and balcony foyers in tact (almost).
Even the projection booth is still there, covered in dust.
Nearly $100,000 has been raised by more than 2,000 donors intent on keeping the library afloat.
An online fundraising campaign has accumulated tens of thousands of dollars to keep the doors of a local Michigan library open after it was defunded earlier this month.
More than 60 percent of Jamestown Township residents in an Aug. 2 election voted to defeat a proposal to renew a property tax millage that funds more than 80 percent of the library’s yearly budget, citing the library’s refusal to remove LGBTQ+ books.
Do other USAmericans not know the names of the Great Lakes?? I grew up in the midwest so like. They’re important here but I never considered that other people might not give a fuck about these terrifying inland seas until I was reading a fic that said “the large Lake Michigan and another called Lake Erie” as if there are people who don’t know about Lake Michigan and Lake Erie.
Is that the case?? Are people outside of the midwest aware of these bodies of water outside of being just big lakes???
Okay so apparently people outside of the area near the lakes aren’t actually taught shit about them, which stresses me out so much actually??? These are NOT normal lakes, they are essentially inland freshwater seas with very strong currents (Superior, Huron, and Michigan are three of the ten largest lakes in the world), tp the point where they can have tsunamis, and are well known for people drowning and ships sinking in them. It’s estimated that anywhere beteen 6,000 and 30,000 ships have sunken in the Great Lakes.
We’re only about halfway through 2022 and there’s already been around 60 drownings this year alone. I really wonder how many of those deaths were tourists who weren’t aware of the very real dangers of these waters and treated them like normal lakes. If you visit them, treat them like you’d treat the ocean and be very careful.
Also, names from largest to smallest:
Superior (second largest lake in the world 🎉)
Huron (fourth largest in the world)
Michigan (usually has the most deaths every year)
Erie (shallowest of them all but is still ~210 ft deep in places)
Ontario (smaller than Erie but almost 4x as deep in its deepest spots)
Okay let’s talk about the shipwrecks because there are SO many and in like 5th grade I did a history project on them using mostly Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes byPaul Hancock and Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals by William Ratigan as my sources. There are more books out now (I did this project in like 2002).
One of the best known wrecks is the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot has a 6 minute song about it. The ship sunk in November of 1975 but didn’t find the wreck until May of 1976. They couldn’t even really look because Lake Superior is so fucking intense.
I’m not even joking about Lake Superior. There are TWO additional pages for shipwrecks on Lake Superior on top of the basic Great Lake shipwrecks page.
And we aren’t just talking older shipwrecks with the Great Lakes - sure there are wrecks from the 1800s (and probably earlier tbh), but there was a wreck in 2000 in Lake Huron. True North II was a tour boat that sunk “suddenly in rain and nearly gale-force winds”.
These are just the ships/tourist boats. There are so many small boats that sink too.
The Great Lakes are not to be fucked around with. They’re basically freshwater seas with how big they are, how intense the weather can be, and how much you should respect them.
