The news reports for today and tomorrow are calling for hurricane type winds, and sure enough, this morning has seen some big wind gusts...the weatherforcasters say they may be as high as 70 mile per hour winds. We've already lost one umbrella to the wind, time to batten down the hatches and the deck furniture too.
Some of the weathermen were comparing these winds to the same type or worse winds that took down the Edmund Fritzgerald, as related in the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fritzgerald", by Gordon Lightfoot.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.
The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.
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