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BUFFALO, N.Y. – A Canadian freighter became icebound in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall while departing Buffalo, New York, requiring help from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. The Coast ...
Twenty people stranded on an ice floe on Lake Erie in Ohio are safe, the Coast Guard said Monday. ... A winter weather advisory is in place starting at 8 p.m. Monday and into Tuesday morning for ...
When a freighter got trapped in Lake Erie’s thick ice, the U.S. Coast Guard teamed up with Canadian vessels in a mission dubbed “Operation Coal Shovel” to break through the frozen blockade ...
The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on Wednesday after it dropped off a load of wheat in Buffalo, New York, and was heading back to Canada, the Coast Guard said. It was freed Saturday. The ship wasn't damaged, and its crew is safe, officials said.
Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through; explorers followed rivers out of Lake Ontario and portaged to Lake Huron.
Waterfront homes in the aptly named Crystal Beach on the shore of Lake Erie in Fort Erie, in the state of Ontario, Canada, were encased in ice after a blizzard that pummeled the area on the ...
The Niagara River and Falls have been known outside of North America since the late 17th century, when Father Louis Hennepin, a French explorer, first witnessed them. He wrote about his travels in A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America (1698). [9] The Niagara River was the site of the earliest recorded railway in America.
Buffalo experienced zero visibility/complete whiteout conditions from 9 a.m. on December 23 until 1 a.m. on December 25 and again from 5 a.m. until 7 a.m. on December 26. [10] Buffalo's 37.5 consecutive hours of blizzard conditions was the longest blizzard in the city's history, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] as well as the longest blizzard of any city below ...