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.

 

[KCrowley]

There is a documentary on YouTube.

Yes, but it's pretty thin and amateurish. That storm could use the big-budget, feature treatment.

 

[MNElkNut]

There is a great article about Bud Grant the legendary Vikings coach and how he lived through it in the Minneapolis Star Tribune a few years ago. It was amazing.

 

[KCrowley]

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

Glad to see this recommendation. I was honored to write the foreword (I also took the cover photo, and that's one of MacQuarrie's typewriters in the photo!) There are some real gems in this newish book. Well worth the read for MacQuarrie fans.

 

[Gellar]

Glad to see this recommendation. I was honored to write the foreword (I also took the cover photo, and that's one of MacQuarrie's typewriters in the photo!) There are some real gems in this newish book. Well worth the read for MacQuarrie fans.

That’s really awesome! I’m going to check it out!