HUGE waves in Canal Park!!! Near the end a wave almost hits the bridge!

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  • Huge waves in Canal Park / Duluth MN on 4-20-2023.
    The iron gates keeping people from walking out to the lighthouse had just broken open, and all the ice that was backed up behind it began flowing down the walkway.
    The 9:41 mark of this video is then the gates break open. • "Gales of Superior" S...

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  • @paf950
    @paf950 Рік тому +10

    Great video!

  • @jimcrawford5039
    @jimcrawford5039 Рік тому +18

    I used to go up the Great Lakes on ocean going ships when I was young. I remember a ferocious storm on Lake Superior once, I have never forgotten it. Thanks for this. Cheers from Australia.

  • @rolfekurtyka-realestateexa6078

    Wow! Great video.

  • @bazza945
    @bazza945 Рік тому +4

    Whew! From Canada, with Maple Syrup and Love. 😊

  • @pretense101
    @pretense101 Рік тому +16

    Thank you for braving those waters and chunks of ice I never saw the water move in the walk way crazy stuff !

  • @carolewoolley7017
    @carolewoolley7017 Рік тому +10

    Love the ships, the ever changing sky, the mystique of the north shore, but this is my favorite for the year. Lake Superior reminding humans that it is nature totally in charge, can destroy in a minute what takes years to build. Great vid!!!

  • @Ikwigsjoyful
    @Ikwigsjoyful Рік тому +13

    Looks like great weather for getting nice and cold and wet, so you can really appreciate the hot cocoa when you get back home! Very awe-inspiring wave video - thank you for sharing!

  • @thebigguy8306
    @thebigguy8306 Рік тому +12

    Thank you. Stunningly beautiful mother nature at work and horrifying at the same time. Hoping everyone stayed safe

  • @michaelborgelt1600
    @michaelborgelt1600 Рік тому +13

    Moin Dave, i saw the storm live at the Canal cams. But of course not so near. Wow. Thank you and greetings from Germany : - )

  • @livinglikeananimal
    @livinglikeananimal Рік тому +34

    I watched this on the stream yesterday and the weather was so intense, thank you for the additional up close views of the waves and flooding! I felt bad for the crews of the ships that were caught out to sea in that mess and had to hunker down by the shore all day, that could not have been fun bobbing on those choppy waves... 😫

  • @alastairfleming7478
    @alastairfleming7478 Рік тому +9

    It shows real dedication to be out filming in that weather, thanks!

  • @TOTALCAMARO
    @TOTALCAMARO Рік тому +4

    Definitely on the wild side. Great video 😊

  • @margaretcolquhoun4111
    @margaretcolquhoun4111 Рік тому +7

    Like KC, I watched it on the webcam. It was absolutely mesmerising. I'd never imagined waves so high right where everybody walks. Great video and thank you.

  • @freddypflugbeil6
    @freddypflugbeil6 Рік тому +3

    Great show. Thanks from New York

  • @wotrulke5868
    @wotrulke5868 Рік тому +3

    Awesome video thanks for sharing it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @micheller2029
    @micheller2029 Рік тому +14

    Thanks for sharing, we were watching the canal cam and was wondering how deep was in the canal walkway. Thanks for the up close perspective!

  • @mercibeaucoup2486
    @mercibeaucoup2486 Рік тому +8

    Epic footage !!! I watched it on the webcam yesterday but this really nails it !!!! 🌊

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +3

      Thank you. 30 years of going down to canal and never seen anything like it.

  • @djmiller232
    @djmiller232 Рік тому +16

    What an amazing video, Dave. Thanks for going down there and for posting it! If you look on the island side of the bridge at 2:40, it looks like a wave *does* hit the bridge - it might just be spraying upward from a ladder recess though.

  • @denisek292
    @denisek292 Рік тому +26

    Those are some ginormous breakers! Did I see a life ring float by?😨

    • @thomasmint1761
      @thomasmint1761 Рік тому +1

      Well, for the Midwest perhaps. We’re yawning out east

  • @Rogerramjet4321
    @Rogerramjet4321 Рік тому +21

    I thought for a minute a wave would hit the bridge. Impressive storm and video.

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +2

      I thought that myself!

    • @olivei2484
      @olivei2484 Рік тому +6

      Looked like one did on the far south side, barely grazed the bridge.

  • @NSNorfolk
    @NSNorfolk Рік тому +31

    Those are impressive seas!! I grew up on Lake Erie, just west of Cleveland. Those waves rival some formed by hurricanes on the East Coast!

    • @tc1uscg65
      @tc1uscg65 Рік тому +16

      3 tours in the great lakes. St Clair Shores, Mobile Bay and D9 commcen. Also did time on a couple of 210's, both encountered Hurricanes. I'll take a Hurricane any day over a "storm" on the great lakes. I remember hitting 25footers coming out of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal, on our way to break the Acacia out of a ice flow. Storm from the south. We got a call from A/S Traverse city asking if we were ok. They found one of our life rafts almost in the straits of Mackinaw, inflated. Guess it got washed overboard and we didn't know. 25ft seas might not sound like much to those who worked Alaska waters, but CONFUSED seas is way worse IMO. I'll stick to that story since I had a couple of tours on 210's and road out Hurricanes, on both.

    • @krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975
      @krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Рік тому +1

      those waves are 3 ft and not even close to an ocean hurricane swell. 2 ft by Australian standards and 1 ft Hawaiian scale.

    • @Ryan-qh6oz
      @Ryan-qh6oz Рік тому +2

      Even though it's the Great Lakes it does look like an ocean I remember years ago I was in Minnesota NOT by the Great Lake area I was in a paddle boat I went so far out we were in a Severe Weather at the time and I couldn't get back to shore but I made it back

    • @tc1uscg65
      @tc1uscg65 Рік тому +4

      @Kraken wood floor service Mcmahon I thought you got cyclones in the Australian area, not hurricanes. I know, what's in a name. Point being, these weather events can be different for different areas and create various conditions. Great Lakes gets it Gails and Storms that can manifest conditions that rival a hurricane. But what you get as a bonus in the lakes is confused seas. Something you dont get out in the middle of a typical hurricane. And the seas build faster there due to their depth and shape. Anything that can sink a 700ft ship is bad, regardless where it happens. 73's

    • @NSNorfolk
      @NSNorfolk Рік тому +2

      @@tc1uscg65 Riding a 210, I don't blame you at all. The periodicity of the wave on the Great Lakes (especially Erie, which is comparatively shallow) makes it even worse. This would be a tough ride in even a 378'. How about going out in a 44 MLB or even one of the "new" 47's in this?

  • @greathornedowl3644
    @greathornedowl3644 Рік тому +6

    Thank you, great views, how something is so beautiful and so horrifying at the same time

  • @robhay57
    @robhay57 Рік тому +6

    Wow! You recorded some great stuff!

  • @gizmomom7140
    @gizmomom7140 Рік тому +45

    Unbelievable how close they are standing to water waves.
    Very powerful. One slip and you could be carried away.
    Yes, beautiful nature.

    • @jacqueline-fc8wb
      @jacqueline-fc8wb Рік тому +4

      Which will then cause stress and trouble for others because someone will have to rescue them.

    • @kellysvir5277
      @kellysvir5277 Рік тому +2

      I sure hope canel park ok we love going there in summer

    • @WesFanMan
      @WesFanMan Рік тому +1

      Anything for a selfie. Clueless in the canal.

    • @KWHCoaster
      @KWHCoaster Рік тому +1

      Exhibiting the oxygen thief spectrum of DNA.

    • @janicesullivan8942
      @janicesullivan8942 Рік тому +5

      I had two classmates in grade school who were swept by such waves into Lake Michigan, they both drowned. People need to be careful, the unthinkable can happen in seconds.

  • @RockyRacoon123
    @RockyRacoon123 Рік тому +6

    Awesome! Thanks!❤

  • @highplainsdrifter8034
    @highplainsdrifter8034 Рік тому +2

    Wow what a great video! Thank you for fighting the elements to video this!!

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +1

      Thanks High Plains! It was awesome.

  • @johnsoper5675
    @johnsoper5675 Рік тому +5

    if it's this rough at the park, I Can imagine how rough it is in the middle. I've been in the middle of Superior when it was very rough.

  • @willie714
    @willie714 Рік тому +6

    I love cold, blustery, cloudy weather. From a great distance.

  • @Cre8tvMG
    @Cre8tvMG 4 місяці тому +2

    You are a different breed going out in the weather that day!

  • @mikewilhelmson8413
    @mikewilhelmson8413 2 дні тому

    Wow!! I have family in duluth. Walked here many times. Really cool to see this footage, thanks and be safe out there

  • @dontmissthelittlethings
    @dontmissthelittlethings Рік тому +7

    People taking chances by getting too close. Great capture.

  • @donrobertson4611
    @donrobertson4611 Рік тому +1

    Wow! Great video, have never seen such waves flooding Canal Park! And in April! That orange life preserver & chunks of ice roaring past the place on the pier where tourists usually stand is dramatic.

  • @andreasb.8333
    @andreasb.8333 Рік тому +3

    Danke! Schon beeindruckend, ich musste nun unbedingt mal nachschauen, wo sich die Stadt Duluth befindet👍.

  • @StephenLPhotos
    @StephenLPhotos Рік тому +3

    Wow! I watch from NJ on the cams, I've never seen the pier walkway flooded or have a current!

    • @susanpugh130
      @susanpugh130 Рік тому +1

      Mother Superior is a beast!!!❤❤❤ I grew up with this town and Lake. My uncle had a Marina and store near the lift bridge. He got a large houseboat and the family started their way to Silver Bay, North of Duluth. Storms come up real quick on this lake and one blew in fast,, swamping the houseboat and all 7 went in the water. His kids were marine disaster trained and all survived, which is amazing, since the water is usually around 40 or so degrees. Even on a rare hot sunny day you can barely put your foot in it..

  • @gordonthayer5335
    @gordonthayer5335 Рік тому +1

    A view from the recliner. These ships carry their own hotels on the stern. How many rooms are there? How many guest rooms?

  • @JP-su8bp
    @JP-su8bp Рік тому +2

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @stevegantz8620
    @stevegantz8620 Рік тому +1

    Great video! LOL at the guy near the end who doesn't see the small wave catch him from behind!

  • @bethschroeder2482
    @bethschroeder2482 Рік тому +4

    Thank You, this made my night!

  • @firstlast5681
    @firstlast5681 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for the video that was amazing‼️🖐

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @boblister665
    @boblister665 Рік тому +27

    The lake is trying to take that Tug back.

  • @zemetrius
    @zemetrius Рік тому +2

    great video, i was watching when the wave broke open the gate, crazy waves that day, cool seeing from a lower angle than the cams.

  • @billybop17
    @billybop17 Рік тому +2

    That is intense....thanks for sharing

  • @randymorris8740
    @randymorris8740 Рік тому +26

    The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli... 🤣

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +3

      Haha Love it!

    • @marvmattison5248
      @marvmattison5248 Рік тому +5

      Lmao! Thanks for that flash to the 90s. The blowhard George and the blowhole😂!!! Ya gotta love the friendly Soup Nazi. 🤣🤣. No Soup!!!!!

    • @TheHajohajo
      @TheHajohajo Рік тому +1

      But what George really wanted, was to be an architect.

    • @whatevs4531
      @whatevs4531 2 місяці тому

      Seinfeld. And the look on Jerry's face when George says it.. priceless

    • @johnmartlew5897
      @johnmartlew5897 Місяць тому +3

      That’s not the sea. That’s a lake.

  • @IstasPumaNevada
    @IstasPumaNevada 2 дні тому

    That's wild!
    It's also cool how quickly the waves shrink the moment they get into deeper water beyond the canal.

  • @jorgemoro5476
    @jorgemoro5476 Рік тому +3

    Wow! This place is on my to-do list for October 2024!!!

  • @christinefox9075
    @christinefox9075 Рік тому +7

    When we were kids, my dad would take us up to lk Erie and watch a front come in. The lake would be calm as glass and within minutes it would look just like this. I'm always amazed at this little gem. 😆

    • @peters9401
      @peters9401 Рік тому

      Your saying the lake would routinely inundate the shoreline LIKE THIS! I don’t believe that for a second.

  • @judyalbrecht3508
    @judyalbrecht3508 Рік тому +3

    Omigosh check out the ice coming in besides. I haven't seen it this bad!

  • @GreenStreetPlayer1
    @GreenStreetPlayer1 Рік тому

    Kinell! Thanks for the video.

  • @KTMGREG55
    @KTMGREG55 Рік тому +2

    The lake sure was in a rage in your side . Wasn’t anything like that further up in Thunder Bay . I always miss the good ones down there when I visiting 😩🤦‍♂️. Awesome footage. Too bad a ship wasn’t making a visit , imagine how that woulda looked 👀😄

  • @donnachace-larson4795
    @donnachace-larson4795 Рік тому +8

    I can not imagine how difficult if not impossible navigating a 1000 footer in that weather!

  • @johnstark4723
    @johnstark4723 Рік тому +4

    I remember some brutally cold winds in Duluth and still going to school and walking through it

  • @DavidGraskemper
    @DavidGraskemper Рік тому +6

    The sea was angry that day, my friends! 😁

  • @cat441
    @cat441 Рік тому +3

    WOW that is amazing, we watch vids from the canal and know how high those really are... nature is so impressive.

  • @carolewoolley7017
    @carolewoolley7017 6 місяців тому +2

    I rewatch this vid often. It is a testament to the power of wind and water. Its unbelievable that the piers can survive this kind of pounding with ice to boot. Though this stormy sea is a frightening reality of of the lake, it occurs several times over a year, year after year. I still think this vid is top of the list for best canal intensity of gales.

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  6 місяців тому

      Thanks for sharing that!!

  • @robertbate5790
    @robertbate5790 Рік тому +18

    Woah!!! I've seen stormy water before but not rolling over the wall that way. The height of water made me think of storm surge like we have in the North Sea. While it looks spectacular it's also very dangerous. Take care, stay safe. 👍👍👍👍👍. Does the bridge ever have to lift to clear high water? 🇬🇧

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +4

      As far as I know the bridge has never lifted for waves.

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +8

      30 years I've been going down there looking at waves and I've never seen anything like this before.

    • @deetempleton80
      @deetempleton80 Рік тому +3

      Forgot on my reply ❤ thanks Dave Becareful

  • @SongMom8
    @SongMom8 Рік тому +2

    Those are some freaking big waves. 😮

  • @oriolesfan7807
    @oriolesfan7807 Рік тому +4

    Wow, I've never seen flooding here.

  • @ronw59
    @ronw59 Рік тому +6

    I'd prefer being on land looking out, rather than out on the water throwing up!

  • @arthurbrumagem3844
    @arthurbrumagem3844 Рік тому +1

    Wonder how the homes on the lakes side of Park Point are doing ?

  • @hifijohn
    @hifijohn Рік тому +1

    Grew up on the shores of lake Michigan, and this was a common site during the winter months.

  • @leonard7736
    @leonard7736 8 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing, that is crazy

  • @evangelicalcatholics
    @evangelicalcatholics Рік тому +4

    Good way to clean up all the bird crap on the pier and side walks :)

  • @douglashurd8652
    @douglashurd8652 Рік тому +1

    Life ring at 58 seconds... epic . Hurddett here news gives video two thumbs up 👍 👍

  • @rebeccalowe-hodges8162
    @rebeccalowe-hodges8162 Рік тому +7

    Oh my Heck. That looks like the coldest most miserable water ever.

  • @longrider42
    @longrider42 Рік тому +2

    I've been watching the live cams of this place for awhile now, and this is just not good weather wise. Is this normal for Duluth for this time of year?

    • @Bryan-od7nv
      @Bryan-od7nv Рік тому +3

      March yes, April not so much.

  • @wesleywright6484
    @wesleywright6484 Рік тому +4

    Forget the storms of November!!!!We have the winds of April!!!

  • @ryanjohnson3615
    @ryanjohnson3615 Рік тому +15

    Wow that tugboat really got thrown high and dry!

  • @MarkWayUp
    @MarkWayUp Рік тому +2

    wow - stormy seas for sure!

  • @billt8504
    @billt8504 Рік тому +2

    Yeah, nah, we just hit 101 out here in southern Arizona. This looks very cold to me.

  • @olivei2484
    @olivei2484 Рік тому +6

    Cool! And dont turn your back on the "ocean".

  • @wallyman292
    @wallyman292 Рік тому +2

    Awesome!

  • @beckybates4332
    @beckybates4332 Рік тому +2

    Wow those waves are crazy !

  • @susanpugh130
    @susanpugh130 Рік тому +1

    My mom was born in Superior in 1915. 2 of her elementary school friends walked out to the end of that pier and were washed away by huge waves. They were never found. Eventually the green gates were installed. Maybe to protect others. I don't know when they were installed..

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  9 місяців тому

      Wow, that'd be scary!!!

  • @silverforest4682
    @silverforest4682 Рік тому +1

    Amazing! I wonder what the wind speed was?

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +2

      According to the Sky Harbor Airport weather history, for 5:35 p.m. when this series of videos was shot, the winds were NE 36mph gusting to 44 mph. The freezing rain was like pins and needles in the face and eyes. Good times!

  • @hopatease1
    @hopatease1 Рік тому +4

    Now this takes me back 70+ years to when I was a small kid on the south side of Chicago and lived one and a half blocks from the lake .I saw weather like this all the time .

  • @Nails-by-Jennifer
    @Nails-by-Jennifer Рік тому +3

    This is wild!

  • @avail1.
    @avail1. Рік тому +5

    funny how some people will tempt fate....it's called an accident. all it takes is 1 time. then someone at home is getting that phone call. the camera neighbor had the right vantage point. great footage we donot normally get to see this down here in the far west suburbs of Chicago. thank you

  • @guyordorff8355
    @guyordorff8355 Рік тому +2

    I miss being up there when the weather is like that

  • @NotTryingToBeAGoodPerson
    @NotTryingToBeAGoodPerson Рік тому +2

    the great lakes are as scary as they are beautiful
    if I was watching this in VR I'd be terrified

  • @Dr.Pepper001
    @Dr.Pepper001 Рік тому +3

    Could you imagine a boat trying to get through there in those conditions?

  • @Light4theWorldTV
    @Light4theWorldTV Рік тому +3

    Wow. Thanks so much for sharing these events, because they don't show everything on the news definitely! Luke 21:25 "...and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the waves."

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому +2

      Thank you!
      Phillipians 4:6-8
      Isaiah 26:3. ;)

  • @MidwestMotor
    @MidwestMotor Рік тому +1

    At 2:41 a wave does it the bridge on the left side!

  • @will5286
    @will5286 Рік тому +1

    Nice----please consider using a windproof mic and improving your panning and camera movements (slooow is good) -and maybe nice info voiceover. maybe I'll check in again sometime. Cheers

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  Рік тому

      I actually had no intention of putting this on UA-cam. I shot these videos to show my family what they had missed when they opted to not come with me. I ran home and returned to canal park about an hour later with a much better camera to reshoot some better footage, but by that time the waves had calmed down and weren't nearly as impressive, not worth posting.

  • @MakeMeThinkAgain
    @MakeMeThinkAgain Рік тому +2

    Interesting how rusty the water looks when it's stirred up like that.

  • @Hooverdarnit
    @Hooverdarnit Рік тому +4

    Not only were the waves big, they were moving fast too.

  • @SweetUniverse
    @SweetUniverse Рік тому +4

    This is beautiful, but it scares me. I have thalassaphobia. 👍👍

  • @highlanderthegreat
    @highlanderthegreat 6 місяців тому

    do ships come through in this conditions????

  • @juliemead7366
    @juliemead7366 9 місяців тому

    Did you get there by way of the Maritime Museum, or did you walk through water and ice, up to the perch?

    • @dhudy26
      @dhudy26  9 місяців тому

      I meandered my way through the ice chunks by the Museum and up the walkway to the perch ;) Didn't have to walk through any deep water.

  • @Buddyman1225
    @Buddyman1225 Рік тому +2

    No ships hunh ?

  • @ToniMattTony
    @ToniMattTony Рік тому +2

    Amazing !!!!!!!!

  • @barbs.7367
    @barbs.7367 Рік тому +2

    Scary 🌊

  • @sandywilson867
    @sandywilson867 6 місяців тому

    When you have the wind coming right into the arm it is epic . I have never seen waves that big in Duluth canal . no way for boating in that stuff unless you're coastguard . You'd be dead minutes after hitting the water . Hypothermia , you freeze up like the people on the Titanic . Seawater was 28 degrees Far. Great video , thanks for posting .

  • @FrogandFlangeVideo
    @FrogandFlangeVideo Рік тому +1

    Awesome !!!

  • @Jrev900
    @Jrev900 Рік тому +3

    2:42 a wave hits bottom of the bridge.

  • @michaeldeierhoi4096
    @michaeldeierhoi4096 Рік тому +3

    Some of the people on the bank of the river were amazingly unaware when a wave almost leaves them with a foot high wave over their feet especially that guy at the end. 🙄

  • @zeekwolfe6251
    @zeekwolfe6251 Рік тому +4

    This looks like the Pacific ocean off the California central coast.

  • @charleskesner1302
    @charleskesner1302 Рік тому +1

    WOW!

  • @sewage111
    @sewage111 Рік тому +2

    Holy !!! Wave hit the bottom of the bridge at 2:40

  • @megaladonrockband4855
    @megaladonrockband4855 Рік тому +2

    The power and awe of Mother Nature! Hope the life ring was caught😂

  • @Roscoe.P.Coldchain
    @Roscoe.P.Coldchain Рік тому +1

    Is that ice floating 😮