Brenda Leigh didn’t let a little rain, dampen her day last Saturday, she said it was a wonderful, wet, rainy afternoon, so peaceful and serene there in Brimley. That’s true, partly because as soon as it starts to rain, everyone rushes to get under cover, so Brenda stuck around and enjoyed the uncrowded beach. She also found numerous treasures on her rainy explorations, beach art, driftwood roots, wildflowers and even what she thinks may have been a colorful dog toy in it’s previous life. You never know what you’ll find that Lake Superior washes a-shore and it changes with the days, too.

Another treasure that’s often found on the shores of Lake Superior, is a beautiful sunset. Shawn Malone from Lake Superior Photo in Marquette, recently recorded one, after a very wet, gray, windy day. She said the waves were really up that day, too.

Nice pix and an excellent video...I could watch that for hours. The creature in #6 looks like an invasive species.

Hi
Very nice. Currently, our beach on Lake Huron
is several levels of stones (also out in the
water, where it drops off pretty steeply).
Usually it's a mix of sand and stones.

Farther up the coast is a Nature Conservancy
preserve known as Grass Bay; our neighbor says
that he heard all of people's decks, stairs,
walkways that were torn loose in the winter
storms
wound up down there.

That is truly gorgeous..how I want my home, except
with agates!

The beach shots show that life will take hold anywhere it's given even that smallest chance.

This week's storm update. I have power back. Many thousands are still out here. I learned a new thing. We always called them "straight line winds" but it's called a "Derecho". I remember that the Keweenaw was hit with one a couple-three years ago and blew off some roofs. Here they say it damaged or destroyed 10 MILLION acres of corn with 112 mph winds measured.

Kathyrn Laughlin (Kathyl),
Did all the sand move to Grass Bay too? Or do you think it's waaaay out there where the shore 'normally' (relative term) is? Do you have a beach you can walk along at all now or do the stones make that too difficult? Still a beautiful view on beautiful Lake Huron tho!

D. A. (Midwested),
Glad your power is back on! Did you run the generator the whole time?

We learned about derechoes back when our power was out for several days when we 'got' to be a part of the most intense portion of this event:

June 29, 2012 Derecho Event
On Friday afternoon, an intense, long-lived windstorm called a Derecho formed in northwest Indiana and began carving a path of destruction over 600 miles long. Winds approaching 100 miles per hour were reported during the most intense part of the event (between Fort Wayne, IN and Columbus, OH.) At the peak of the event, the Fort Wayne International Airport observing equipment observed a peak wind gust of 91 mph, and the observer reported seeing a downburst descend from the cloud directly ahead of him. Winds were as strong as an EF-1 tornado over a widespread area which resulted in immense damage along the storm's entire path. Given the magnitude of the damage involved with this event and the subsequent extreme heat across much of the eastern United States, a Service Assessment was complied.

jbuck,

I turned the generator off from 10pm until 8-9am. A pretty full freezer can coast that long although my not so full frig would get up to almost 50 degrees. Nothing like fresh meat etc. in the frig so I was OK with the condiments and fresh broccoli warming up a bit.

Jbuck, the amount of sand vs stones on the shore
has always changed from year to year. Probably
much of it did wash up or down the coast. The
stones make it tough to walk. However, downed
trees across the beach are the real obstacle.

Generally there is a belt of stones underwater a
foot or three out from the shore then a sandy
bottom. This year there is sand out under water,
but the water is over my head out there.