Armistice day Storm 1940

[duckhunt]

The Armistice Day Storm is a tremendous story...would probably make a compelling movie.

I learned about it when I read a piece Gordon MacQuarrie wrote on the Armistice Day storm...it can be found in a collection of his newspaper columns called Right Off The Reel.

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I recommend everyone have some of MacQuarries writings on their bookshelf

There is a documentary on YouTube.

 

[duckhunt]

I feel remiss for not bringing this up yesterday. The Armistice day storm of 1940, now 85 years ago claimed the lives of hunters and fishermen in the Midwest. Here is a local account from a local commercial fishing family who got caught in the storm.
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Do you know where Bay Island is?

 

[Gellar]

Do you know where Bay Island is?

No I do not. I just looked on a pool map and don’t see anything. It’s hard telling how the islands were different back in 1940. Plus all of those islands have about 4 different names. An official name, a Wisconsin common name, an Iowa common name, and so forth. .

 

[Gellar]

Do you know where Bay Island is?

I would say it was somewhere either in Harpers Slough, which is just north of the lock on the Iowa side or where the channel turns east/west in front of ferryville where they’ve had to reconstruct all of those islands in the last 15 years.

 

[duckhunt]

I would say it was somewhere either in Harpers Slough, which is just north of the lock on the Iowa side or where the channel turns east/west in front of ferryville where they’ve had to reconstruct all of those islands in the last 15 years.

Yeah I was thinking maybe where the main channel cuts through. I also looked at my maps.