Geo (Gio) Rutherford

So Lake Superior gets this November gale because the water is warm.

leading into november and you get a storm system that kind of comes across the united states and it picks up speed with that hot water kind of releasing like evaporating into and making the storm even more insane so lake superior gets like the craziest storms of the bunch of them and there's like up to 30 foot waves on the lake and unlike in the ocean where you'd have a giant wave but it's like a giant wave that like comes in these like wide spread apart sets

But the Great Lakes waves are different because they're only created from wind, not from any tide.

And so as a result, the waves are super close together.

So they're really tight.

And so you just can be like absolutely buffeted by these waves in Lake Superior during a storm.

And then your ship just can't handle it like it can handle it in the ocean.

It can't handle it here in the Great Lakes.

So it's just a different type of shipping experience.

And the water can freeze in the ocean.

Like you're not going to get frozen ice on the boat because of the salt.

Great Lakes, your boat is completely covered in icicles.

It could be just a giant icicle as a result.

And so that's kind of what makes Lake Superior just so different and special because it's so cold and people are shipping there like all the way into the winter.

And like I told you guys about, you know, you get, she never gives up her dead.

So people are like down at the bottom.

Yes.

I have an extra one, Allie.

You want me to send it to you?

I have it hanging up over there in my studio.