In northern Minnesota, huge stretches of the popular Boundary Waters Canoe
Area Wilderness were severely damaged in a massive July fourth storm. One
hundred mile an hour winds flattened trees in a swath thirty miles long and
twelve miles wide. The emergency prompted the forest service to suspend the
rules against motors in the wilderness. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Stephanie Hemphill reports it may take months to make the portages useable
again:
Tag: storm
Winter Storm Survival
The blizzard that crippled the Great Lakes Region is behind us. But after
bringing the area to a standstill for several days, Great Lakes Radio
Consortium commentator, Suzanne Elston, wonders how previous generations
ever managed to survive:
Commentary – Keep the Home Fires Burning
While the Great Ice Storm of ’98 is safely behind us, it has left some lasting memories, and not all of them bad. As Great Lakes Radio Consortium commentator Suzanne Elston points out, maybe we could all learn a little something from the Storm of ‘98: