10 Big storm last week (Read 6375 times)
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Re: Big storm last week
Reply #10 - Aug 2nd, 2016 at 11:43pm
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Like the Beav, I was in the park when that thing hit.  We went in on Wednesday the 20th via PP and stopped a the high camp site on the middle of Isabella with our group of 7.  We weathered the storm as the Beav described, lots of rain, lightning and thunder, but the winds where we were, were pretty mild - thankfully.  We did not find out about the major blow down until coming out of Agnes into Meadows on the 28th from a pair of paddlers coming in.  On fellow said his brother in Duluth just got power back the day before.  We didn't see much evidence of any blow downs going up Kahsh thru the poets, Kawnipi, and Agnes until we go to Sunday and PP. BTW the BSA Order of the Arrow crews did a heck of a job fixing up the portage from Sunday to Sunday Bay - kudos to them and I'll not avoid that anymore if headed in via Sunday Lake.

Once back in civilization, they were calling it Blow-down II (after the '99 one) and Ferberg Rd. showed lots of evidence of the seriousness of the storm.  Many local houses and businesses were out of power for several days and some with severe damage.  Burntside Lodge took a serious hit as show in the Timberjay newspaper.

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