I used to go up the Great Lakes on ocean going ships when I was young. I remember a ferocious storm on Lake Superior once, I have never forgotten it. Thanks for this. Cheers from Australia.
@pretense101 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for braving those waters and chunks of ice I never saw the water move in the walk way crazy stuff !
@carolewoolley7017 Жыл бұрын
Love the ships, the ever changing sky, the mystique of the north shore, but this is my favorite for the year. Lake Superior reminding humans that it is nature totally in charge, can destroy in a minute what takes years to build. Great vid!!!
@bazza945 Жыл бұрын
Whew! From Canada, with Maple Syrup and Love. 😊
@Ikwigsjoyful Жыл бұрын
Looks like great weather for getting nice and cold and wet, so you can really appreciate the hot cocoa when you get back home! Very awe-inspiring wave video - thank you for sharing!
@thebigguy8306 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Stunningly beautiful mother nature at work and horrifying at the same time. Hoping everyone stayed safe
@livinglikeananimal Жыл бұрын
I watched this on the stream yesterday and the weather was so intense, thank you for the additional up close views of the waves and flooding! I felt bad for the crews of the ships that were caught out to sea in that mess and had to hunker down by the shore all day, that could not have been fun bobbing on those choppy waves... 😫
@michaelborgelt1600 Жыл бұрын
Moin Dave, i saw the storm live at the Canal cams. But of course not so near. Wow. Thank you and greetings from Germany : - )
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Greetings!!! :)
@rolfekurtyka-realestateexa6078 Жыл бұрын
Wow! Great video.
@micheller2029 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, we were watching the canal cam and was wondering how deep was in the canal walkway. Thanks for the up close perspective!
@margaretcolquhoun4111 Жыл бұрын
Like KC, I watched it on the webcam. It was absolutely mesmerising. I'd never imagined waves so high right where everybody walks. Great video and thank you.
@djmiller232 Жыл бұрын
What an amazing video, Dave. Thanks for going down there and for posting it! If you look on the island side of the bridge at 2:40, it looks like a wave *does* hit the bridge - it might just be spraying upward from a ladder recess though.
@alastairfleming7478 Жыл бұрын
It shows real dedication to be out filming in that weather, thanks!
@NSNorfolk Жыл бұрын
Those are impressive seas!! I grew up on Lake Erie, just west of Cleveland. Those waves rival some formed by hurricanes on the East Coast!
@tc1uscg65 Жыл бұрын
3 tours in the great lakes. St Clair Shores, Mobile Bay and D9 commcen. Also did time on a couple of 210's, both encountered Hurricanes. I'll take a Hurricane any day over a "storm" on the great lakes. I remember hitting 25footers coming out of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal, on our way to break the Acacia out of a ice flow. Storm from the south. We got a call from A/S Traverse city asking if we were ok. They found one of our life rafts almost in the straits of Mackinaw, inflated. Guess it got washed overboard and we didn't know. 25ft seas might not sound like much to those who worked Alaska waters, but CONFUSED seas is way worse IMO. I'll stick to that story since I had a couple of tours on 210's and road out Hurricanes, on both.
@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Жыл бұрын
those waves are 3 ft and not even close to an ocean hurricane swell. 2 ft by Australian standards and 1 ft Hawaiian scale.
@Ryan-qh6oz Жыл бұрын
Even though it's the Great Lakes it does look like an ocean I remember years ago I was in Minnesota NOT by the Great Lake area I was in a paddle boat I went so far out we were in a Severe Weather at the time and I couldn't get back to shore but I made it back
@tc1uscg65 Жыл бұрын
@Kraken wood floor service Mcmahon I thought you got cyclones in the Australian area, not hurricanes. I know, what's in a name. Point being, these weather events can be different for different areas and create various conditions. Great Lakes gets it Gails and Storms that can manifest conditions that rival a hurricane. But what you get as a bonus in the lakes is confused seas. Something you dont get out in the middle of a typical hurricane. And the seas build faster there due to their depth and shape. Anything that can sink a 700ft ship is bad, regardless where it happens. 73's
@NSNorfolk Жыл бұрын
@@tc1uscg65 Riding a 210, I don't blame you at all. The periodicity of the wave on the Great Lakes (especially Erie, which is comparatively shallow) makes it even worse. This would be a tough ride in even a 378'. How about going out in a 44 MLB or even one of the "new" 47's in this?
@johnsoper5675 Жыл бұрын
if it's this rough at the park, I Can imagine how rough it is in the middle. I've been in the middle of Superior when it was very rough.
@gizmomom7140 Жыл бұрын
Unbelievable how close they are standing to water waves. Very powerful. One slip and you could be carried away. Yes, beautiful nature.
@jacqueline-fc8wb Жыл бұрын
Which will then cause stress and trouble for others because someone will have to rescue them.
@kellysvir5277 Жыл бұрын
I sure hope canel park ok we love going there in summer
@WesFanMan Жыл бұрын
Anything for a selfie. Clueless in the canal.
@KWHCoaster Жыл бұрын
Exhibiting the oxygen thief spectrum of DNA.
@janicesullivan8942 Жыл бұрын
I had two classmates in grade school who were swept by such waves into Lake Michigan, they both drowned. People need to be careful, the unthinkable can happen in seconds.
@denisek292 Жыл бұрын
Those are some ginormous breakers! Did I see a life ring float by?😨
@thomasmint1761 Жыл бұрын
Well, for the Midwest perhaps. We’re yawning out east
@TOTALCAMARO Жыл бұрын
Definitely on the wild side. Great video 😊
@randymorris8740 Жыл бұрын
The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli... 🤣
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Haha Love it!
@marvmattison5248 Жыл бұрын
Lmao! Thanks for that flash to the 90s. The blowhard George and the blowhole😂!!! Ya gotta love the friendly Soup Nazi. 🤣🤣. No Soup!!!!!
@TheHajohajo Жыл бұрын
But what George really wanted, was to be an architect.
@whatevs45313 ай бұрын
Seinfeld. And the look on Jerry's face when George says it.. priceless
@johnmartlew58972 ай бұрын
That’s not the sea. That’s a lake.
@greathornedowl3644 Жыл бұрын
Thank you, great views, how something is so beautiful and so horrifying at the same time
@wotrulke5868 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video thanks for sharing it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@mercibeaucoup2486 Жыл бұрын
Epic footage !!! I watched it on the webcam yesterday but this really nails it !!!! 🌊
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. 30 years of going down to canal and never seen anything like it.
@freddypflugbeil6 Жыл бұрын
Great show. Thanks from New York
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Freddy!
@willie714 Жыл бұрын
I love cold, blustery, cloudy weather. From a great distance.
@StephenLPhotos Жыл бұрын
Wow! I watch from NJ on the cams, I've never seen the pier walkway flooded or have a current!
@susanpugh130 Жыл бұрын
Mother Superior is a beast!!!❤❤❤ I grew up with this town and Lake. My uncle had a Marina and store near the lift bridge. He got a large houseboat and the family started their way to Silver Bay, North of Duluth. Storms come up real quick on this lake and one blew in fast,, swamping the houseboat and all 7 went in the water. His kids were marine disaster trained and all survived, which is amazing, since the water is usually around 40 or so degrees. Even on a rare hot sunny day you can barely put your foot in it..
@mikewilhelmson841323 күн бұрын
Wow!! I have family in duluth. Walked here many times. Really cool to see this footage, thanks and be safe out there
@boblister665 Жыл бұрын
The lake is trying to take that Tug back.
@Cre8tvMG5 ай бұрын
You are a different breed going out in the weather that day!
@donrobertson4611 Жыл бұрын
Wow! Great video, have never seen such waves flooding Canal Park! And in April! That orange life preserver & chunks of ice roaring past the place on the pier where tourists usually stand is dramatic.
@RobynMM Жыл бұрын
Wow! You recorded some great stuff!
@RockyRacoon123 Жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thanks!❤
@stevegantz8620 Жыл бұрын
Great video! LOL at the guy near the end who doesn't see the small wave catch him from behind!
@gordonthayer5335 Жыл бұрын
A view from the recliner. These ships carry their own hotels on the stern. How many rooms are there? How many guest rooms?
@Rogerramjet4321 Жыл бұрын
I thought for a minute a wave would hit the bridge. Impressive storm and video.
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
I thought that myself!
@olivei2484 Жыл бұрын
Looked like one did on the far south side, barely grazed the bridge.
@IstasPumaNevada23 күн бұрын
That's wild! It's also cool how quickly the waves shrink the moment they get into deeper water beyond the canal.
@highplainsdrifter8034 Жыл бұрын
Wow what a great video! Thank you for fighting the elements to video this!!
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Thanks High Plains! It was awesome.
@zemetrius Жыл бұрын
great video, i was watching when the wave broke open the gate, crazy waves that day, cool seeing from a lower angle than the cams.
@andreasb.8333 Жыл бұрын
Danke! Schon beeindruckend, ich musste nun unbedingt mal nachschauen, wo sich die Stadt Duluth befindet👍.
@dontmissthelittlethings Жыл бұрын
People taking chances by getting too close. Great capture.
@JP-su8bp Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@billybop17 Жыл бұрын
That is intense....thanks for sharing
@johnstark4723 Жыл бұрын
I remember some brutally cold winds in Duluth and still going to school and walking through it
@christinefox9075 Жыл бұрын
When we were kids, my dad would take us up to lk Erie and watch a front come in. The lake would be calm as glass and within minutes it would look just like this. I'm always amazed at this little gem. 😆
@peters9401 Жыл бұрын
Your saying the lake would routinely inundate the shoreline LIKE THIS! I don’t believe that for a second.
@bethschroeder2482 Жыл бұрын
Thank You, this made my night!
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@firstlast5681 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video that was amazing‼️🖐
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@donnachace-larson4795 Жыл бұрын
I can not imagine how difficult if not impossible navigating a 1000 footer in that weather!
@judyalbrecht3508 Жыл бұрын
Omigosh check out the ice coming in besides. I haven't seen it this bad!
@KTMGREG55 Жыл бұрын
The lake sure was in a rage in your side . Wasn’t anything like that further up in Thunder Bay . I always miss the good ones down there when I visiting 😩🤦♂️. Awesome footage. Too bad a ship wasn’t making a visit , imagine how that woulda looked 👀😄
@Zoyx14 күн бұрын
I lived on Minnesota Point for a few years. I don't recall the bridge ever being closed due to high waves, but this looked close to doing that.
@ronw59 Жыл бұрын
I'd prefer being on land looking out, rather than out on the water throwing up!
@carolewoolley70177 ай бұрын
I rewatch this vid often. It is a testament to the power of wind and water. Its unbelievable that the piers can survive this kind of pounding with ice to boot. Though this stormy sea is a frightening reality of of the lake, it occurs several times over a year, year after year. I still think this vid is top of the list for best canal intensity of gales.
@dhudy267 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing that!!
@DavidGraskemper Жыл бұрын
The sea was angry that day, my friends! 😁
@GreenStreetPlayer1 Жыл бұрын
Kinell! Thanks for the video.
@cat441 Жыл бұрын
WOW that is amazing, we watch vids from the canal and know how high those really are... nature is so impressive.
@douglashurd8652 Жыл бұрын
Life ring at 58 seconds... epic . Hurddett here news gives video two thumbs up 👍 👍
@wesleywright6484 Жыл бұрын
Forget the storms of November!!!!We have the winds of April!!!
@hifijohn Жыл бұрын
Grew up on the shores of lake Michigan, and this was a common site during the winter months.
@robertbate5790 Жыл бұрын
Woah!!! I've seen stormy water before but not rolling over the wall that way. The height of water made me think of storm surge like we have in the North Sea. While it looks spectacular it's also very dangerous. Take care, stay safe. 👍👍👍👍👍. Does the bridge ever have to lift to clear high water? 🇬🇧
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
As far as I know the bridge has never lifted for waves.
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
30 years I've been going down there looking at waves and I've never seen anything like this before.
@deetempleton80 Жыл бұрын
Forgot on my reply ❤ thanks Dave Becareful
@SongMom8 Жыл бұрын
Those are some freaking big waves. 😮
@oriolesfan7807 Жыл бұрын
Wow, I've never seen flooding here.
@evangelicalcatholics Жыл бұрын
Good way to clean up all the bird crap on the pier and side walks :)
@susanpugh130 Жыл бұрын
My mom was born in Superior in 1915. 2 of her elementary school friends walked out to the end of that pier and were washed away by huge waves. They were never found. Eventually the green gates were installed. Maybe to protect others. I don't know when they were installed..
@dhudy2610 ай бұрын
Wow, that'd be scary!!!
@billt8504 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, nah, we just hit 101 out here in southern Arizona. This looks very cold to me.
@MidwestMotor Жыл бұрын
At 2:41 a wave does it the bridge on the left side!
@leonard77369 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, that is crazy
@arthurbrumagem3844 Жыл бұрын
Wonder how the homes on the lakes side of Park Point are doing ?
@AllCheatRiders Жыл бұрын
the great lakes are as scary as they are beautiful if I was watching this in VR I'd be terrified
@beckybates4332 Жыл бұрын
Wow those waves are crazy !
@rebeccalowe-hodges8162 Жыл бұрын
Oh my Heck. That looks like the coldest most miserable water ever.
@olivei2484 Жыл бұрын
Cool! And dont turn your back on the "ocean".
@ryanjohnson3615 Жыл бұрын
Wow that tugboat really got thrown high and dry!
@Dr.Pepper001 Жыл бұрын
Could you imagine a boat trying to get through there in those conditions?
@hopatease1 Жыл бұрын
Now this takes me back 70+ years to when I was a small kid on the south side of Chicago and lived one and a half blocks from the lake .I saw weather like this all the time .
@Light4theWorldTV Жыл бұрын
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing these events, because they don't show everything on the news definitely! Luke 21:25 "...and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the waves."
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Phillipians 4:6-8 Isaiah 26:3. ;)
@MarkWayUp Жыл бұрын
wow - stormy seas for sure!
@guyordorff8355 Жыл бұрын
I miss being up there when the weather is like that
@MakeMeThinkAgain Жыл бұрын
Interesting how rusty the water looks when it's stirred up like that.
@avail1. Жыл бұрын
funny how some people will tempt fate....it's called an accident. all it takes is 1 time. then someone at home is getting that phone call. the camera neighbor had the right vantage point. great footage we donot normally get to see this down here in the far west suburbs of Chicago. thank you
@chuck1352 Жыл бұрын
holy cow big water when was this video shot
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Shot on 4-20-23
@megaladonrockband4855 Жыл бұрын
The power and awe of Mother Nature! Hope the life ring was caught😂
@Hooverdarnit Жыл бұрын
Not only were the waves big, they were moving fast too.
@will5286 Жыл бұрын
Nice----please consider using a windproof mic and improving your panning and camera movements (slooow is good) -and maybe nice info voiceover. maybe I'll check in again sometime. Cheers
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
I actually had no intention of putting this on KZbin. I shot these videos to show my family what they had missed when they opted to not come with me. I ran home and returned to canal park about an hour later with a much better camera to reshoot some better footage, but by that time the waves had calmed down and weren't nearly as impressive, not worth posting.
@undersixty Жыл бұрын
People are nuts to be standing there
@Whatsinanameanyway134 күн бұрын
My first time ever seeing Superior as a kid looked close to this, I thought that was how she always looked. I couldn't believe people took boats out there.
@Nails-by-Jennifer Жыл бұрын
This is wild!
@michaeldeierhoi4096 Жыл бұрын
Some of the people on the bank of the river were amazingly unaware when a wave almost leaves them with a foot high wave over their feet especially that guy at the end. 🙄
@Jrev900 Жыл бұрын
2:42 a wave hits bottom of the bridge.
@sandywilson8677 ай бұрын
When you have the wind coming right into the arm it is epic . I have never seen waves that big in Duluth canal . no way for boating in that stuff unless you're coastguard . You'd be dead minutes after hitting the water . Hypothermia , you freeze up like the people on the Titanic . Seawater was 28 degrees Far. Great video , thanks for posting .
@wallyman292 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@curtekstrom9531 Жыл бұрын
To think these waves are mild compared to what the Edmond Fitzgerald experienced that November night 1975.
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
An event I commemorate each November. I live a short bike ride from where she departed on her final voyage.
@SweetUniverse Жыл бұрын
This is beautiful, but it scares me. I have thalassaphobia. 👍👍
@sewage111 Жыл бұрын
Holy !!! Wave hit the bottom of the bridge at 2:40
@silverforest4682 Жыл бұрын
Amazing! I wonder what the wind speed was?
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
According to the Sky Harbor Airport weather history, for 5:35 p.m. when this series of videos was shot, the winds were NE 36mph gusting to 44 mph. The freezing rain was like pins and needles in the face and eyes. Good times!
@ToniMattTony Жыл бұрын
Amazing !!!!!!!!
@paulbowler2760 Жыл бұрын
That is Edmund Fitzgerald weather - and it's only late April!
@stanbrow Жыл бұрын
Wow, never saw the water get to the walkway
@dhudy26 Жыл бұрын
Same here!
@ronaldvrooman9695 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, and it got pretty deep there!
@zeekwolfe6251 Жыл бұрын
This looks like the Pacific ocean off the California central coast.
@SkYwOmAn1 Жыл бұрын
I’m actually surprised that authorities didn’t make those people leave…IMMEDIATELY!!!! THAT, is SO DEADLY DANGEROUS!! NOTHING to mess with! I’m pretty familiar w/Canal Park, & I’ve seen waves like this. People who don’t (visitors to the area) are usually the people tempting fate. That water could take them in a heartbeat….& they’d be dead b4 anyone could get to them. That water is FREEZING 🥶!! Hypothermia will kick in FAST, & you’re DONE!! **PLEASE, IF YOU’RE NOT FAMILIAR W/THE AREA, & NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE POWER OF THIS?? STAY WAYYYYYYY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@doreatheaalbin2834 ай бұрын
This reminds me of the story that my mom told me of the 3 young men from the same family who went down here to watch the waves. One boy fell in and his brothers tried to save him and they all drowned. Not sure if I got the details right but a coast guardsman died as well trying to save them. It was before I was born so maybe 1964 or so