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#19 - EXTREME HISTORICAL EVENTS

27/9/2016

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If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?

The answer is yes.

If a tsunami sweeps across an inland lake in the boreal forest, and there is no one there to see it, did it happen?

Maybe.

It depends on the track it leaves.

I have paddled across a big lake in a storm, in the teeth of a gale, for a solid two hours, non-stop, because if I stopped, I was dead.  When I finally looked back, there was no track.  It might have never happened.

Lake Nipigon is one of Canada's biggest lakes.  I have canoed it, but . . . never in a storm.  I was caught in a storm there once, and, apparently, I lived.

If I'd been out paddling a couple weeks ago, I would have, apparently, died.
In this neck of the woods, they call a tsunami a seiche (pronounced SAY –sh).  A strong westerly wind piled the water into a ridge and sent it rippling across the broad expanse of Lake Nipigon into the southeast arm, where the steep hills and narrowing corridor exacerbated the phenomenon.
I know it happened because I saw its track, two weeks later.

In September of 2009, my friend Peter took me sailing up the arm and into the open lake.  I was researching the shoreline for my novel, The Beardmore Relics.  It was breezy, but pleasant.  And we returned safely, apparently, to the dock.

That dock is no longer there . . .

ORIGINAL POST June 2011

Read the full post with colour photos on E.J. Lavoie's Blog > http://bit.ly/2cCrgB0


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    E.J. Lavoie contributes a weekly column to Greenstone's Coffee Talk and the Nipigon-Red Rock Gazette.  The column can be read in its entirety on his blog, complete with images.  Just click the link at the end of each post.

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