June 11, 20205 yr Just received a rare NOAA rip current warning for Lake Erie beaches. Be careful out there!
June 22, 20204 yr We took the pup to the Edgewater dog beach on Saturday... Am I alone in thinking that the lake is much more clear this year?? I could see my feet clear as day until I was thigh deep.. and I’m 6-3
June 22, 20204 yr 52 minutes ago, YABO713 said: We took the pup to the Edgewater dog beach on Saturday... Am I alone in thinking that the lake is much more clear this year?? I could see my feet clear as day until I was thigh deep.. and I’m 6-3 I'd mentioned this to friends and family over the weekend. Edited June 22, 20204 yr by Clefan98
June 22, 20204 yr 1 hour ago, YABO713 said: We took the pup to the Edgewater dog beach on Saturday... Am I alone in thinking that the lake is much more clear this year?? I could see my feet clear as day until I was thigh deep.. and I’m 6-3 We've also had an exceptionally dry June, and I have to believe COVID has cut down on litter as well (less people driving around tossing their fast food cups out the window, etc)
June 22, 20204 yr 32 minutes ago, Cleburger said: We've also had an exceptionally dry June, and I have to believe COVID has cut down on litter as well (less people driving around tossing their fast food cups out the window, etc) Good point on the dry June. From my understanding, the color has less to do with litter and more to do with silt collection. But I may be completely wrong
June 22, 20204 yr 16 minutes ago, YABO713 said: Good point on the dry June. From my understanding, the color has less to do with litter and more to do with silt collection. But I may be completely wrong Yes color has to due with runoff. The litter was just a guess by me. One would think of cars are being driven less, pollution less that general littering would be down as well.
February 10, 20214 yr yeow talk about being the dead of winter! my bro just txt me this -- what a view -- somebody did a drone shot over the lorain lighthouse:
February 11, 20214 yr Another lake looks icy too... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 11, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, X said: Nobody cares about that lake! This is the Lake Erie thread- back on topic! BAN HIM!
February 11, 20214 yr that aint lake erie you landlubber -- don't make me bring back the bronx weschester square CHAIR!
February 11, 20214 yr "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 20, 20214 yr synchronized swimming deer off Headlands Beach https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=147034514071148&id=101065115334755&__tn__=-R http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 26, 20213 yr I saw this posted on a Cleveland-centric Facebook page earlier and thought it was interesting: A Ship Graveyard in Lake Erie https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148990/a-ship-graveyard-in-lake-erie?fbclid=IwAR39S_U7gVj3zcjIWmOdkJojBbq5QqgqqtIhTzfBofLWtIgQQzFy1MGqvMY
December 27, 20213 yr not saying it was aliens, but … https://newssport2.com/man-recorded-a-large-ufo-floating-above-lake-erie-ohio-video-2/
December 27, 20213 yr ^ Fata Morgana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage) My hovercraft is full of eels
December 27, 20213 yr 11 hours ago, mrnyc said: not saying it was aliens, but … https://newssport2.com/man-recorded-a-large-ufo-floating-above-lake-erie-ohio-video-2/ Looks like a low altitude lenticular cloud to me. I've seen them before flying out of BKL.
January 18, 20223 yr Just ran across this story about a guy who walked to Canada across frozen Lake Erie alone. Uhm... no thanks. I Walked Across Lake Erie — Alone "I felt like a penguin on a giant treadmill. The Canadian shoreline just did not seem to be getting any bigger." Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the December 1978 issue of Cleveland Magazine. We've republished it as part of our Historic Read of the Week series, in which we revive classic pieces from the magazine's archives. Read more about Dave Voelker's walk as part of our "30 Myths That Define Cleveland" December 2019 cover package. https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/articles/i-walked-across-lake-erie-149-alone?fbclid=IwAR2cNMY251BVRpRf_O1hBPVzzI_GskZt1ujvMCPh1q3ejhcJ6hEz0xy3CgA
January 18, 20223 yr I remember reading that article when it was originally published. Not sure I would do that. But I might try walking from Catawba to South Bass Island.
January 18, 20223 yr 40 minutes ago, Cleburger said: Just ran across this story about a guy who walked to Canada across frozen Lake Erie alone. Uhm... no thanks. I Walked Across Lake Erie — Alone "I felt like a penguin on a giant treadmill. The Canadian shoreline just did not seem to be getting any bigger." Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the December 1978 issue of Cleveland Magazine. We've republished it as part of our Historic Read of the Week series, in which we revive classic pieces from the magazine's archives. Read more about Dave Voelker's walk as part of our "30 Myths That Define Cleveland" December 2019 cover package. https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/articles/i-walked-across-lake-erie-149-alone?fbclid=IwAR2cNMY251BVRpRf_O1hBPVzzI_GskZt1ujvMCPh1q3ejhcJ6hEz0xy3CgA Does the entire lake really freeze over to safe walking depths? Or was that the case in 78 but not anymore? I thought the Coast Guard regularly cuts up the lake in winter so it doesn't fully freeze over.
January 19, 20223 yr 16 minutes ago, Pugu said: Does the entire lake really freeze over to safe walking depths? Or was that the case in 78 but not anymore? I thought the Coast Guard regularly cuts up the lake in winter so it doesn't fully freeze over. If there are winds from the north, it will open up water along the Canadian shoreline. If the winds turn and are from a southerly direction, open water will form along the southern shores. This is the sort of thing that gets the ice fishers in trouble on the Great Lakes. Ice starts getting pushed apart due to wind shifts. It would take a sustained cold stretch with either little wind or wind out of one direction for a longer period of time. It also helps if the ice breakers aren't sent out. Don't think the ice breakers get sent out for no reason, but if there are ships that get caught trying to get those extra loads delivered before the lakes freeze over, they may need to be dispatched to free them up. That winter of 1977-78 was so cold for an extended period of time and winds out of the north/northwest that allowed it to happen.
January 20, 20223 yr On 1/18/2022 at 7:00 PM, LifeLongClevelander said: If there are winds from the north, it will open up water along the Canadian shoreline. If the winds turn and are from a southerly direction, open water will form along the southern shores. This is the sort of thing that gets the ice fishers in trouble on the Great Lakes. Ice starts getting pushed apart due to wind shifts. It would take a sustained cold stretch with either little wind or wind out of one direction for a longer period of time. It also helps if the ice breakers aren't sent out. Don't think the ice breakers get sent out for no reason, but if there are ships that get caught trying to get those extra loads delivered before the lakes freeze over, they may need to be dispatched to free them up. That winter of 1977-78 was so cold for an extended period of time and winds out of the north/northwest that allowed it to happen. fwiw that famous winter was the one where we walked out onto the lake as little kids until we could not see any shoreline anymore. so dum !!!
January 29, 20223 yr Times have changed! I saw on a weather report yesterday the lake is currently about 70% frozen.
May 18, 20223 yr This is from a few months ago but I just happened to see it in a Facebook post. I never did see it docked in Cleveland as mentioned...but hopefully this is going forward? NOAA ship to sonar map Detroit River and Lake Erie Ahoy Matey, there’s going to be a different kind of ship plying the waters of Lake Erie this spring with the arrival of a deep-water hydrographic survey vessel from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The 208-foot Thomas Jefferson is due to arrive in Cleveland next month to sonar map the lakebed between there and Detroit through the end of September, according to NOAA Commander Briana Welton Hillstrom. Hillstrom said only five to 15 per cent of the Great Lakes have been mapped to modern standards. The last time an NOAA ship with similar size and capability was on the Great Lakes occurred on Lake Huron in the early 1990s. https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/noaa-ship-to-sonar-map-detroit-river-and-lake-erie
May 24, 20223 yr Efforts to refloat American Courage haven't been fully successful as of earlier today.. Sigh, If I only had the nerve. Edited May 24, 20223 yr by DO_Summers
December 6, 20222 yr an amy sedaris public service announcement — do not eat like this during gullnados! 😮😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClzBTKdDrU3/?igshid=NTdlMDg3MTY=
December 21, 20222 yr I have quite a few of my "front yard": This one is probably my favorite, she was 7 or so and we climbed down the bluff.
December 23, 20222 yr Interesting animation of the record-setting seiche event happening as I type this on Lake Erie. There is approximately a 20' difference in lake level between Toledo and Buffalo! https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/anim.php/?lake=eri&var=zeta
July 20, 20231 yr this is pretty cool. the national lighthouse museum is near us, so we go to events and all — if yr into it you can easily visit — its right next to the ferry station in staten island: https://lighthousemuseum.org anyway — in their current email vermilion is lighthouse of the week — interesting history, but sorry i have cut&paste it: Historical content courtesy of Lighthouse Friends Vermilion, Ohio straddles a river of the same name as it empties into Lake Erie, and the city has a past as colorful as the clay for which the river was named. Once known as the “city of sea captains,” Vermilion was a popular drop-off point for illegal liquor from Canada during the days of Prohibition. The city has been home not only to many captains and sailors, but also to an amazing lighthouse story that spans two centuries and two Great Lakes. Inhabited by the Erie Indians as early as 1656, Vermilion had grown large enough by the mid-nineteenth century for its harbor to warrant government maintenance. In 1847, Congress appropriated $3,000 to build a beacon light and prepare the head of the pier on which it would be built. Before 1847, the people of Vermilion had constructed their own navigational aid: wooden stakes topped with oil-burning beacons at the entrance of the harbor. By 1852, the pier was in need of repair, a project that cost $3,000. An inspection report filled out in 1858 describes the light at Vermilion as “a gallows frame standing on a completely wrecked pier.” In 1859, the beacon light and pier were rebuilt at a cost of $5,000. The new lighthouse, shown in the picture at right, was made of wood and topped with a whale oil lamp. With the help of a sixth-order lens, the lamp’s flame produced a sheet of light that was visible from several miles out in Lake Erie. In 1870, the Lighthouse Board requested $4,000 to purchase a lot and build a keeper’s dwelling at Vermilion. Since a vacant lot easily accessible from the piers and from which the beacon light could be seen was not available, a lot was purchased with a house already on it. The dwelling was altered to accommodate the storage of oil, and a stone sidewalk and cellar were added. The Lighthouse Board noted in 1877 that as the old wooden tower was decayed and in danger of falling down a new iron tower had been ordered. To cast the lighthouse, ironworkers used sand molds of three tapering rings, with an octagonal cross-section. The iron they used was from unpurchased Columbia smoothbore cannons, obsolete after the Battle of Fort Sumter. As noted by Vermilion native Ernest Wakefield, “The iron, therefore, of the 1877 Vermilion lighthouse echoed and resonated with the terrible trauma of the War Between the States.” Once the ironworkers in Buffalo had completed the casting of the lighthouse and ensured that all parts fit together correctly, the pieces of the lighthouse were loaded onto barges in the nearby Erie Canal. Hauled by mules, the barges reached Oswego, New York, in two weeks. From there, the lighthouse was transferred to the lighthouse tender Haze, a steam-powered propeller vessel, which departed Oswego on September 1,1877 and headed west for the Welland Canal, where a series of twenty-seven locks raised the boat to the water level of Port Colborne and onto Lake Erie. One must wonder why this circuitous route was taken when Buffalo, where the tower was cast, sits right on Lake Erie. On its way to Vermilion, the Hazestopped at Cleveland Harbor, where it took on the lighthouse’s lantern, lumber and lime for building the foundation, and a crew to raise the lighthouse. Also loaded was a fifth-order Barbier and Fenestre Fresnel lens, which had been shipped to Cleveland by train. One day later, the Haze arrived in Vermilion. It took several days to prepare the foundation, and once it was in place, the crew used the derrick on the Haze to lift the bottom ring of cast iron and place it on the foundation. After the ring was bolted down, the successive tapering rings were put in place and bolted to each other. Then the pediment and lantern were added. The Fresnel lens and oil lantern were installed later. A spiral, iron stairway led from the first floor to the second floor of the tower, from where an iron ship’s ladder led to the lantern room. Once assembled, the tower measured thirty-four feet high and stood at the end of the pier with a 400-foot-long catwalk connecting it to shore. This allowed the lighthouse keeper to travel between the light and the mainland when large waves crested over the pier. One such lightkeeper was Captain John H. Burns, who lived in the dwelling purchased by the government in 1871. From this home on the corner of Liberty and Grand Street, he would walk to the pier each night to light the lantern inside Vermilion’s lens. The characteristic of the light was changed at the opening of navigation in 1880 from fixed white to fixed red. On April 27, 1893, the lighthouse was struck by the schooner M. S. Bacon, which was being towed from the harbor by the steam tug J. P. Devney. Two angle-iron plates in the tower were so damaged that they had to be replaced. A repair bill of $161.61 was sent to the owners of the Devney, and when they refused to pay, the matter was turned over to the justice department. 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July 31, 20231 yr 27 minutes ago, mrnyc said: a recent vermilion sunrise from my bro - Hmmm...beautiful and interesting. is this image reversed, or does the sun set in the east in Vermillon? Or better yet, a local promontory jutting out into the lake? Edited July 31, 20231 yr by DO_Summers
July 31, 20231 yr 2 minutes ago, DO_Summers said: Hmmm...beautiful and interesting. is this image reversed, or does the sun set in the east in Vermillon? he said sunrise
July 31, 20231 yr Just now, Htsguy said: he said sunrise D%mn, I'm a terrible multitasker. Back to work!
July 31, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, DO_Summers said: D%mn, I'm a terrible multitasker. Back to work! you and me both — i cant count how often i do that with multiple goofing off threads up 🤷♂️
September 10, 20231 yr On the shores of Lake Erie stands the Marblehead Lighthouse, a landmark with the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes. Over the years, it’s become a favorite subject for photographers and historians alike. The lighthouse has seen numerous changes. It upgraded to a 4th-order fixed Fresnel lens in 1858, grew in height between 1897 and 1903, and incorporated a regular flash every 10 seconds. Electricity, introduced in 1923, was a major advancement. Its significance during World War II led the US Coast Guard to take responsibility in 1946. Currently managed by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources but still technically overseen by the U.S. Coast Guard, its light now shines green and is visible for 11 nautical miles. Visitors to Marblehead can enjoy expansive lake views and explore a museum that replicates a lifesaving station. I've posted more photos and history here. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
February 9, 20241 yr gullnado & weather in edgewater marina — 🏄♂️🧜♂️🐦 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1AiSiGJRue/?igsh=MWd1aGoxa2NvbnR2Nw==
March 22, 20241 yr Very little Lake Erie in this vid, but neat lil kickoff to the 2024/5 shipping season vid from Interlake Steamship Co.
April 24, 20241 yr sometimes you can see michigan from avon lake — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5-3iHmgb6b/?igsh=Z3dnbTJ4b2Nycjkw
April 24, 20241 yr 33 minutes ago, mrnyc said: sometimes you can see michigan from avon lake — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5-3iHmgb6b/?igsh=Z3dnbTJ4b2Nycjkw Yes! I've witnessed this, seeing some building in Canada from Edgewater Park. I'm certain this is the type of thing that led to sailors seeing "ghost ships" and the like.
June 7, 20241 yr Cleveland skyline as seen from Headlands Beach and Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse, 30 miles away http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
July 1, 2024Jul 1 Life Aboard the Great Lakes' Newest Cargo Ship Meet the crew that keeps things running, day and night, on the Mark W. Barker: a new vessel designed specifically to navigate the Cuyahoga River. Annie Nickoloff Thursday, June 20, 2024 On a clear Tuesday morning, the Motor Vessel Mark W. Barker slides away from the Cleveland Bulk Terminal near Whiskey Island and works toward the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. We are stationed in the spacious captain’s deck, positioned near the ship’s stern and four flights of stairs above the main, 639-foot-long deck. Surrounded by charts and logs, captain Alex Weber and wheelsman Zachry Filipiak have their eyes glued to the glistening path in front of the lengthy ship. Here, the smell of fresh coffee drifts from a pot brewing in the corner, next to a bowl of candy and above a mini-fridge containing a tub of homemade pickled eggs that Filipiak and a friend made a few weeks ago. (He lets us know they’re there for the taking, in case we’re hungry.) Calming soft-rock tunes play lightly in the background; Toto and James Taylor and Uncle Kracker’s “Drift Away” — and, here, the song goes, “I wanna get lost in your rock ‘n’ roll and drift away ... ” https://clevelandmagazine.com/we-travel-the-cuyahoga-aboard-the-mark-w-barker-the-great-lakes-newest-cargo-ship
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