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On this date, in 1975, I would have been almost 10 years old (in December). I don’t remember the run up to the storm. I do remember the morning after the winds, when the hurricane force wind gusts occurred. We had glass, fireplace doors that had ghostly dancers from the ashes being stirred up, the next morning. Later on the news, we heard about the wreck. However, it wasn’t until later in 1976, when a magazine that was called “Michigan Living,” I think, had a story on the wreck, and the Gordon Lightfoot song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” that I became obsessed. It drew me more into meteorology, since the storm took down a big freighter on the Great Lakes.