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Video shows bright fireball seen in the skies over Lake Erie. Max Hauptman, USA TODAY. October 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM. ... Numerous photos and videos captured the bright streak of light, which was ...
SS G. P. Griffith was a passenger steamer that burned and sank on Lake Erie on 17 June 1850, resulting in the loss of between 241 and 289 lives. [1]: 54 The destruction of the G. P. Griffith was the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes up to that point, and remains the third-greatest today, after the Eastland in 1915 and the Lady Elgin in 1860.
Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2.6 years, [24] the shortest of all the Great Lakes. [25] The lake's surface area is 9,910 square miles (25,667 km 2). [7] [26] Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes. Generally, the lowest levels are in January and February and the highest in June or July, although ...
The 1969 fire caused approximately $50,000 in damage, mostly to an adjacent railroad bridge, [25] but despite Mayor Stokes' efforts, very little attention was initially given to the incident, and it was not considered a major news story in the Cleveland media. [25] A view of the river from the Ohio and Erie Canal Tow-Path Trail
North East, Pennsylvania, a borough in Erie County, recorded just over 42 inches of snow between Thursday night and Saturday afternoon while Erie, Pennsylvania, received 31 inches.
A significant lake-effect snowstorm that impacted communities from Michigan through New York produced rare thundersnow and even spawned waterspouts along the shores of Lake Erie.
Erie was a steamship that operated as a passenger freighter on the Great Lakes. It caught fire and sank on August 9, 1841, resulting in the loss of an estimated 254 lives, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the history of the Great Lakes. The Erie had a wooden hull and used a side-wheel paddle for propulsion.
The lighthouse caught fire on December 31, 1863, during a ferocious storm in which the temperature dropped to minus 25 degrees. The lighthouse keeper, Charles Drake, his wife and daughter were forced to take refuge in an outhouse, wrapped in a pair of comforters, after an unsuccessful attempt to quench the fire with buckets of lake water.