Our little Lake Michigan was getting pretty angry today. It's supposed to get worse as the day goes on.

I just heard theres 20' waves out in the middle! that would be some fun!

pic must be photoshopped!!! these lakes don't get rough

Here is a link to the news story:

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapi...ord_at_la.html

Holy Crap!!!

When a professional offshore race is shortened because of rough conditions and boats are breaking and sinking everywhere, you know you're not in the ocean -- only the Great Lakes!

These are worth the watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHmxt...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7tq_ioo2gw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7tq_...eature=related

Awesome, thanks for posting! We have the best playground!

I guess I just assume you are being sarcastic, but just in case you are serious---those appear to be the pier heads/jetty from Holland, Michigan. I doubt those photos are "photo shopped".

Here's a little history.....I know the Great Lakes were and can be rough enough to sink large ocean going freighters like the 730 foot long/75 foot wide Edmond Fitzgearld back in 1975 which was the largest ship to sail on North America's Great lakes and still remains to be the largest ship that has sunk in the Great Lakes.

Anyway, thanks for the video links....I was there during those Grand Haven offshore races (1990-91 or so) on a friend's boat. We came to watch and support our hometown team WARHAWK with Carl Warren and Ron Gift and I remember how rough it was----it was a real mess out there for all of us spectator boats trying to watch the race.

I also remember there being an incredible amount of spectator boats out there to observe the race and I remember that no matter how far you went to find a spot that wasn't so congested that it almost did not make a difference....it was still wall to wall boats...and the real challenge was trying to toss an anchor and get settled in a decent position while trying to stay out of the way of other boats and their anchor lines---some weren't so successful...and saw a lot of boats bump into each other and even watched a spectator boat 15 yards away as it sank.

I would say we probably had more fun on that day watching all the spectator boats trying to stay out of some hairy situations (some weren't so successful) than watching the race boats.

Those were some memorable days of boating.

short choppy waves on them great lakes.... and they say the wave that sank the fitzgerald was an 80 footer

Yippee! Tornados, hail and everything! Let's go boating.

In the first link to the story there is a cool NOAA wave height chart. Is there a web site for updated charts like this?

Cool vids too.