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Gunflint Falling - Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
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Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster  On July 4, 1999, in
the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre
confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging
blowdown in the region’s history. Originating over the Dakotas,
the midsummer windstorm developed amid unusually high heat and
water-saturated forests and moved steadily east, bearing down on
Fargo, North Dakota, and damaging land as it crossed the Minnesota
border. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm
from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before,
during, and after the catastrophic event—from first-time visitors
to the north woods to returning paddlers to Forest Service Rangers.
 The pre-dawn forecasts from the National Weather Service in
Duluth for that Sunday of the holiday weekend predicted the day
would be “warm and humid. Partly sunny with a thirty percent
chance of thunderstorms.” But as the afternoon and evening
settled over the Boundary Waters, the first eyewitness accounts
began to tell a dramatic and terrifying story. Five friends camping
on Lake Polly watched in wonder as the sky turned green and the
winds began to whip. They scrambled to pull canoes on shore and
secure tarps when a tree snapped and struck one of them in the
head, rendering her unconscious. Three women enjoying their last
day of a camping trip near the end of the Gunflint Trail took
shelter in their tent as winds increased. Water drenched the nylon
walls as trees crashed around them, one flattening the tent and
pinning a woman beneath its weight. A family vacationing at their
cabin dodged falling trees and strained against straight-line winds
as they sprinted from the cabin to the safest place they knew: a
crawl space underneath it. They watched in awe as trees snapped and
toppled, their twisted root balls torn out of the water-logged
earth—as they prayed their cabin would hold.  By the time
the storm began to subside, falling trees had injured approximately
sixty people, and most needed to be medevacked to safety.
Amazingly, no one died. The historic storm laid down timber that
would later blaze in the Ham Lake fire of 2007, ultimately
reshaping the region’s forests in ways we have yet to fully
understand.
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Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Cary J Griffith
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
312 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5179-1556-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5179-1556-2 |
Barcode: |
9781517915568 |
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