Flash Flooding on the North Shore of Lake Superior // 2024.06.19

[@trebnestel358]

Great video, that is a lot of water!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Yes it was!

[@atomicwedgie8176]

Was really hoping Gooseberry Falls would have been included... that would have been awesome! Great vid!!!!!!!!!!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

I didn't want to battle the crowds there were no parking spots with all of the tourists.

[@wWSwiftyWw]

@@tonecoughlinphotography I was there that day and yes it was crazy busy. It was worth it though. The falls were amazing. You couldn't even go get to the lower falls. The path was blocked off and over flowing.

[@BlottyWellRite]

This is cool. I was born in Hancock, MI...and grew up swimming in Lake Superior...south shore near the Keweenaw Peninsula. There was a small river flowing into the lake...at this place called Great Sand Bay. I would always dam it up whenever we picnicked there.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Lake Superior is the place to be!

[@BlottyWellRite]

@@tonecoughlinphotography Last time I vistted there was August of 2019. I even swam at mouth of the Gratiot. I hope to visit this year again...swim again!

[@sydney.g.sloangammagee8181]

I thought swimming in Lake Superior was forbidden, even in deep heat of summer, the granite base keeps the water so cold that people get hypothermia!!!

[@johnbeck8812]

Me too grew up in houghton

[@BlottyWellRite]

@@johnbeck8812 I lived in Lake Linden, Copper City, and Mohawk.

[@kenycharles8600]

Thank you for this presentation.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

You're welcome 🤗

[@lindabroad7391]

Absolutely stunning!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

It was fun to see.

[@andyhowat4624]

Beautiful

[@kathyhughes7074]

Stunningly beautiful yet so dangerous & deadly! Thank you so much for showing us the beauty of the North Shore. Great work!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

You're welcome! It took the entire day I wish there was more time I could have grabbed more footage.

[@bassfartz]

Beautiful cinematography

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Thank you!

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

Great drone work. Darn, these rivers are at a very high level.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Thanks 👍. Yes they are!

[@minnybiker4505]

Well done! Thank you for sharing!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Thanks a lot!

[@jimmylieb5225]

excellent photography!!

[@cleonmain1291]

Great Video thanks for sharing it.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

No problem, thanks for enjoying it!

[@markalbrecht4361]

Makes me want to be there!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

It was amazing 😍

[@keradee8742]

Beautiful video but the music was unnecessary. I'd rather just hear the water.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

FYI drones do not have sound. All you would hear is buzzing and wind 👌

[@keradee8742]

@@tonecoughlinphotography Good point! I didn't even think of that. Great footage! Thanks!

[@toddg9659]

Maybe music a little less dramatic.

[@valeriepausch8623]

The music is fine, I can feel how dramatic it all is.

[@lannylippold1461]

I love the music!

[@arnesste000]

High cliff state park , I’ve fished there at the pool under the falls .

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Nope. Grand Portage State Park not sure which one you are talking about.

[@ZRaStar989]

Beautiful Capture, Thank You for recording this for us all to view! and Nice music!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Thanks I really appreciate it. It was a fun day 👌

[@susanpugh130]

Just this morning I had the thought, "won der what the rivers look like coming into Superior"❤

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Pretty intense!

[@tioasn]

Beautiful video. My question is what’s going to happen to all of the downstream lakes water levels?

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Lake Superior has risen a little bit. That's the only immediate downstream lake.

[@danlowe8684]

Lake Superior has a massive watershed area and is 1000' deep at its deepest point. Its water flows east, eventually ending up at Niagara Falls. What's amazing is that Superior's level has never strayed more than 1.5' above or 1.5' below its average level since measurements started being documented in the 1800s.

[@richardatchison5296]

All rivers flow into the seas. Yet the sea is never full.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

The sea is always full 👌

[@jimmylieb5225]

the worlds oceans levels are rising due to unprecedented melting of the polar icecaps!!

[@danlowe8684]

Pete Townshend has a wonderful song titled, 'The Sea Refuses No River'.

[@coldspring624]

The rivers in their natural state handle it well.

[@kenycharles8600]

I'm wondering if the Baptism River got it's name because you're going to be totally emersed should you step in to it?

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

lol that's a good question!

[@jimmylieb5225]

do you ever get over to Lake Superior Provincial Park? absolutely beautiful there Agawa Rock pictoglyphs and the rugged lakeshore.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Never been there.

[@lukelee3]

There was just another big storm there monday. Any new updates?

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Not on the north shore. Scanlon is flooding from the St. Louis River Jay Cooke is pretty cool right now.

[@superdoublekapowzler2383]

I just really notice the profound absence of extreme kayakers, wonder why.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

There's only a few kayakers I know of that would attempt water like this.

[@jimthain8777]

All that silt moving into the lake will be great for algae.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Algae in Lake Superior?

[@jimthain8777]

@@tonecoughlinphotography Apparently that was thought impossible, and then it happened for the first time in 2017 I believe. I was unaware that it hadn't happened before that. It must be another climate change adaptation. We aren't the only ones adapting to a changing climate. The planet is doing so as well.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

@@jimthain8777 I did some research I guess it's a temporary thing when lake levels are lower and warmer. If the water is high like it is now the lake stays cool.

[@DougMelaas]

While there is certainly quite a bit of silt/debris being carried along in the higher-than-normal waters, remember that most of these rivers are already kind of dark tea-colored due to tannins that they pick up as they flow through marshes and other wetlands, so it isn't as dramatic as the video makes it appear. This is normal for a lot northern MN rivers and lakes.

[@perspectacle]

Honestly, the flooding flow is impressive, but what does a “normal flow” look like? I don’t live there, so it is unclear how much difference is being observed.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Check out my website I have lots of photos of "normal flow."

[@franklydear4890]

Spring melt is impressive as well. We go to lutsen for our wedding anniversary

[@johnbeck8812]

Raising water levels in lake superiot

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

They have definitely gone up from all the rain we've had so far this year!

[@lightclawshadowmarsch8167]

That annually happens all the time in the summer an is not considered a flash flood for that river

[@brucezimmerman9451]

Thank you - click bait titles are stupid.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

It was a flash flood we got 7-9" inches of rain in less than an hour. You're probably talking spring melt.

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

@@brucezimmerman9451 lol, not click bait. All you have to do is google search flash flooding northern Minnesota on June 18, 2024.

[@brucezimmerman9451]

@@tonecoughlinphotography Got it. Thanks.

[@sydney.g.sloangammagee8181]

Well, since it is YOUR video - perhaps you should have edited in some of your previous videos to show us the difference between what is normal for most of the year around as compared to what excess amount you're trying to show us in this video.

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

Nice images I sure could do without the over dramatic music and the slow motion

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Can't please everyone 😂

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

@tonecoughlinphotography of course not. I just mentioned it because it doesn't fit and seems rather out of place

[@DressyBessie]

​@@tonecoughlinphotography😅I like it!

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

@@DressyBessie thank you very much!

[@RobertGliddon]

This is simply normal spring runoff, or a large rainfall. North of Superior doesn't have 'Flash Floods'

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

We already had spring runoff in April. 7-9" of rain in less than an hour wiped out culverts and dirt roads. Highway 61 was flooded. It was all over the news you can check it out for yourself.

[@photobobo]

I didn't see any "flooding". This is what one would expect those river to look like after a heavy rain. Maybe you were just making click bait?

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

Could you please provide us an example video on your channel? We're dying to learn 😂

[@karlsjunior466]

I can explain. What we see here is high water. High water is after a good rain and the water comes up and moves fast and dangerous. But as everyone can see, the water is contained within the normal banks of the river. A FLOOD happens when the water rises enough to pour out of the river banks onto roads, yards, parks, businesses and things like that where it causes damage leaves debris and possibly some destruction if powerful enough. Now you can see the difference. This vid is of high water, not flooding. Good footage. To bad the title was clickbait

[@qcexplorer6628]

​@@karlsjunior466there's a good kind of nerding out and a bad kind. You're doing the bad kind right now. Stop it. Be better.

[@karlsjunior466]

@@qcexplorer6628 you telling me not to speak my mind is worse. Stop it.

[@aileensochon7500]

Music very overpowering

[@tonecoughlinphotography]

You can mute the video too!