Couple endures tsunami on the river
June 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Richard Vitullo and his wife, Perry, share on Water Street in Fond du Lac.
They were the neighborhood’s last unevacuated residents on Saturday, even with the St. Louis River turning their back deck into a pier. Continue Reading
Ok…That’s it….I think I’ve now heard of everything. Never ever did I think I’d hear of a tsunami wave anywhere in MN or ND……That’s just not a term that one would expect from two land locked states in the middle of North America…….I guess there could be such a thing either in Lake Supior or in Lake Sakakawea if somehow we had a major land shift, but who’d thunk it in a river?
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I would mention that the largest tsunami in modern history occurred in an Alaskan bay as a result of a landslide. Thankfully the lack of water depth relatively speaking in fon du lac limits the potential for this type of a tsunami.
The tsunami in Alaska was approximately 1000 feet tall.
I would also add that lake superior is subject to drudge, tsunami like effect due to air pressure differences, and a bathtub like resonance of waves.
Chicago harbor was seriously damaged earlier this century due to a large seiche.
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Prior post should say Lake Superior is prone to seiche, autocorrect didn’t like that word I guess.
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seiche, is that Lake Superior raw fish? LOL
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