- Location
- Cleveland Ohio
[video=vimeo;52664285]https://vimeo.com/52664285[/video]
Lake Erie, Sandy
- Thread starter djkorn1
- Start date
DarkWater
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- Location
- waterford, MI
So much damage in so many effected areas...
You never see the 22 footers near the shore...they are out.
I am convinced that due to the way the lake is we will never see more than 8 foot near the beach.....if they get bigger than that they just break way out and then you just see already broken 6-8' rolling white wash heading on to the beach at 25+ MPH.
Even when we rode those 13's or whatever they were only 13's along the wall (unrideable) and then out far. The beach had 8's.
I am convinced that due to the way the lake is we will never see more than 8 foot near the beach.....if they get bigger than that they just break way out and then you just see already broken 6-8' rolling white wash heading on to the beach at 25+ MPH.
Even when we rode those 13's or whatever they were only 13's along the wall (unrideable) and then out far. The beach had 8's.
- Location
- New York Crew
I agree Matt. Erie is so shallow that most of the over 12' are all off shore a bit. This storm was just damaging here not nice surf at all. Id like to see some Huron shots, those were forecast in the 30' range
- Location
- Cleveland Ohio
They never hit 22 on Lake Erie. They ended up being 13's according to NOAA...because of the slap back from the wall, I'm sure they hit about 20 right there.
Michigan hit 23 feet on the southern tip and Huron hit 20 feet.
The surge was brutal though because they were blowing for so long that the Southern part of the Lake rose about 4 feet on top of the waves, hense the sunk boats. We could NOT have ridden by the breakwall, it would have been death, but a beach launch would have been easy. The waves actually kinda sucked though...they were moving fast and right on top of each other, not ideal conditions by any means. The wind was simply blowing the wrong way. We really need NE winds in Cleveland for waves any bigger than 4 feet.
- Location
- savannah/hilton head
pics and video dont do it justice. i walked out on the pier at edgewater at 9:30 that night and it was insane. they were very big at that point. over by the east 55th warrina they had to of been 20 ft at the shoreway. sitting in the car you had to look up to see the tops. and it was cool to see how big the spray was when the waves hit the there.
DarkWater
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- Location
- waterford, MI
Some photos do it a little justice
http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/122589
Hurricane Sandy on the Great Lakes
http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/122589
Hurricane Sandy on the Great Lakes
Yea they even made a certain person say, "man I want another ski!".
- Location
- savannah/hilton head
hahaha, dont say anything to the wife.