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Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Lake Erie Seiche - storm makes the lake lopsided
Interesting. I'd never heard of a seiche (pronounced Say-sh). It seems there was a storm the beginning of this week blowing west to east. That storm with 60mph winds caused waves that got up to 20'. And it caused the water level of the west end of Lake Erie to drop by 7.5 feet (moved the shore by out by up to ¼ of a mile), and the east end of the lake was 6 feet higher than usual for a spread of 13.5 feet between the two ends of the lake.
Folks expected this phenomenon and went exploring. Part of an old VW that had fallen through the ice while pulling skiers was exposed. A snowmobile that fell through the ice was also exposed. I was looking at "seiche" expecting it to be pronounced differently. And it was coined by a Swiss person which cemented my theory that everyone was pronouncing it wrong, but after a little search, I discovered that it was French/Swiss, not German/Swiss, so I guess the pronunciation is correct.
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Bomb Cyclone?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2025/12/29/power-outages-in-michigan-bomb-cyclone/87943182007/
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There are a lot of pictures on line of people walking hundreds of yards out onto the lakebed. Not me. That water went somewhere, and it’s gonna come back, fast.
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I think this happened a few weeks ago just before Christmas too. Or maybe it was just after Thanksgiving.
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It's always interesting to visit a lake on the TVA system. They get really low in the Fall. I worked on a lake dock on Logan Martin Lake in AL and one day I dropped a hand tool in the water. Being cloudy and murky there was no way of finding it or even making it worse by stepping on it.
When Fall came I went there and walked to the spot and picked it up. Little rust but plenty useable. Some tools that fell into the abyss over the years will stay until demolition. Even then.... Patrick's statement reminds me of a Tsunami. Never actually seen it except in pics. Scary. |
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