Comments on: Searching for Clues in 1913 Immigration

By: Donna Mierzejewski-McManus

Donna Mierzejewski-McManus — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:20:57 +0000

Mike, it made me curious–that’s why I’m looking into it a bit–it makes for good fodder for writing either now or later. I don’t think it did much to my Toledo family, but wouldn’t know. Anyone around at that time is now long gone and I have no mention of it in any materials I have of the family. But it’s a highly interesting piece of history–this storm sunk ships and paralyzed cities. I never knew of lake front ships that sunk (well other than the Edmund Fitzgerald).

By: mikeeliasz

mikeeliasz — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:46:07 +0000

Donna,
Do not feel like you need to research a topic for/because of me. I have never before connected weather events to my genealogy research. I found those Ohio newspapers and their photos amazing for something that happened 98 years ago.

By: Donna Mierzejewski-McManus

Donna Mierzejewski-McManus — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:44:15 +0000

Mike, I have no comment regarding the 1913 Big Blow. I need to look into that to see if it affected the western end of Lake Erie–which near where I grew up. Cleveland is on the east end of the lake. I can’t tell yet if it would have affected NW Ohio. The lake storms run strangely over Lake Erie. They pick up intensity as they move westward over Lake Erie. You’ll notice a snowstorm in Detroit and Toledo that’s pretty typical–5 or 6 or 8 inches. As the storm moves west, you’ll see Cleveland and Erie, PA just inundated with feet of snow. Now, lakefront storms can be wicked anywhere over the Great Lakes region so it would be interesting to see how this might have affected Toledo. I’ll look into it and let you now in a few days. Ahh…I miss the Great North Shore! (Winters are brutal but summers are delightful.)