Stroms Anyone!

[JC_Weekender]

The Sunset thread inspired this one!

Can't have the good without the bad?

St. Clair Michigan on the St. Clair River.

Worst storm I've experience, glad I was on shore for this one. However another boat wasn't so lucky. A 30' sailboat was downbound shortly after this squall line blew threw. He did not make it in time to safe harbor in St. Clair. The winds and rain hit hard. He was force to through anchor in a very bad place, right in the middle of the shipping channel. One of the most narrow spots of the channel, 400' wide with a shoal and bend at that. Before he knew it he had a upbound 1000' foot freight and a downbound 700' freight headed right toward him. At the same time it started hailing 1 inch hail. He could not go on deck to pull anchor without being pelted. Somehow the great navigational skills of these Great Lake Captains managed to sail on ethier side of him.

Another ominous looking storm on the St. Clair River

 

[kybishop]

Those are great pictures. Not much of a storm picture but thought I would chime in. This was a pretty good one we managed to barely beat to the marina. Best thing about our marina location is the storms typically come from the west and the marina is to the east. This one sandwiched us from the west and the south but tied in the covered slip before it hit. This picture only shows our daughter sleeping while we are staying ahead of it, we were headed east. The picture shows more southwest sky (barely) and the storm came from the northeast and the rain from the south. It was strange.

 

[irishfire]

nice pics

 

[Converse48]

Here's the only one I could find... but I bet Turtle Tone (a.k.a. the human storm magnet) has some good ones!

 

[JC_Weekender]

Looks like a pretty good one there!