The Great Storm of 1913

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  1. Hello. I'm johnny kun and I am with history to
  2. 23 W.
  3. 01 class.
  4. I did my presentation the great storm of 1913, which
  5. is otherwise known as the white Hurricane.
  6. The Star ended up getting its name because of the
  7. Mouse. No, that was dropped and the heavy winds that
  8. came down with it.
  9. It's white hurricane.
  10. It ended up coming down very fast and it ended
  11. up lasting up to 19 hours.
  12. The wind speeds ended up around 100 mph in some
  13. areas and on the Great Lakes that created 36 ft
  14. waves, which obviously caused a lot of damage.
  15. They ended up being two ft of snow draft in
  16. some locations along with ice and other factors.
  17. Okay. Yeah.
  18. The reason that the storm was so severe compared to
  19. all the rest of them is because it was two
  20. storms that collided into one on november 9th.
  21. One storm, I'm sorry, november 7th.
  22. One storm began in the north and it was traveling
  23. south and then there was a storm in the south
  24. that was traveling north.
  25. They ended up merging on november 9th which created the
  26. white hurricane.
  27. Uh huh.
  28. The Yeah yeah the storm ended up being very deadly
  29. and it is still one of the region's worst disasters
  30. and it's over 100 years old.
  31. It was so bad that it ended up sinking 12
  32. freighters on the Great Lakes.
  33. These are very very big ships and it doesn't, it
  34. takes quite a bit for those to sink.
  35. Yeah. Out of those 12 ships that ST 250 sailors
  36. were killed Each greater ends up having around 20 crew
  37. members on each freighter in those bodies that we end
  38. up numbers very very fast.
  39. There were 30 other ships besides the 12 that Shank
  40. sank that ended up running ashore in causing severe damage
  41. to them.
  42. A few of the crew members from those ships ended
  43. up dying as well from the cold.
  44. Yeah, yeah.
  45. On land though there were also people that died for
  46. example, there were five unknowns, identified soldiers that were found.
  47. That storm also claimed.
  48. So to remember them, they ended up having Courses with
  49. carriages, carry their caskets, each horse and carriage had one.
  50. And then there were people lined up along the streets
  51. showing their respects to them Out of the 12 ships
  52. that sink, there are still five today that have not
  53. been found in three weeks.
  54. They are so deep that it's almost impossible to locate
  55. every single ship that runs a short, especially back in
  56. the day when they didn't have any technology to show
  57. them where they were last seen at.
  58. Yeah. All the ships that sink every single remember ended
  59. up dying.
  60. There wasn't any survivor from the ships.
  61. It looks very, very sad.
  62. Okay. Uh huh, mm hmm.
  63. So the main reason I did this is because I
  64. wanted to know why the Raiders ended up staying on
  65. the water during this time of the storm instead of
  66. pulling into port and leading the storm out.
  67. Because with each ship having 20 crew members on their,
  68. those bodies pile up Well, it comes to find out
  69. back in 1913, there weren't no radar, radar didn't really
  70. exist back then.
  71. In fact, it actually had just started to exist.
  72. But it was so rare that hardly any ships had
  73. it at this time.
  74. And of course it wasn't very good either.
  75. Another reason that they need didn't go into port is
  76. because they're on tight schedules when they go to one
  77. trip and when they get back, that trip is planned
  78. out perfectly so that they can continue on with the
  79. next one and once they're behind schedule it is very
  80. very hard to get caught back up.
  81. That could mean that trip doesn't end up happening at
  82. the end of the season and more money gets lost
  83. that way as well.
  84. Another reason is there was no ship to shore communication,
  85. meaning that once they left port they had no one
  86. from shore telling them and giving them other updates.
  87. So because of this they had to wait the storm
  88. out because they're not going to take the chance.
  89. I'm pulling into port for a storm that isn't as
  90. severe as what they thought.
  91. So what most of the ships did is they traveled
  92. on the western side of the Great Lakes to shield
  93. themselves from the wind and waves.
  94. But sadly it didn't work out for all of them.
  95. Uh huh.
  96. Mhm. Another thing about the storm is it caused lots
  97. of economic damage to michigan.
  98. For example freighters they're not cheap to build and then
  99. they also have the cargo that they carry as well
  100. which is also very expensive.
  101. They can carry up to 68,000 tons that's in today's
  102. world back then obviously they weren't as big so they
  103. didn't carry as much But from the freighters alone from
  104. them running Ashore, losing their carbo or just sinking altogether,
  105. it was $5 million Michigan.
  106. Today's currency that's about $100 million dollars from one storm.
  107. The storm.
  108. It's still talked about today and is still very well
  109. known because it claimed so many lives and caused so
  110. many issues with michigan.
  111. Okay it's just remarkable the amount of damage that it
  112. caused. Mhm.
  113. And actually Uh huh.
  114. Thank you.
  115. Yeah her body had people.
  116. The white hurricane is there hasn't been a storm nearly
  117. as severe as that.
  118. But the november gales are the number one reason that
  119. ships sink and the storm did happen in november.
  120. So that's just odd coincidence that I find I really
  121. enjoyed researching this project and I loved having this class.
  122. Thank you.
  123. Yeah.