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Green GREAT LAKES CLEAN MARINA NETWORK Working Together to Protect the Great Lakes Submitted by Michigan Sea Grant Are you a boater or marina operator who values clean water? If so, take a look at the Great Lakes Clean Marina Network. Bitches, we will OWN you.Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Winter Issue 2017: We’re basically sitting on lakes of gold over here. Together the Great Lakes comprise 21% of the planet’s surface fresh water by volume, and he who controls the water controls the future. When the world runs out of water, the Great Lakes will be the new Holy Roman Empire Great Lakes humidity is NOTHING like that.ġ0. That’s the kind of humidity that blinds you because the sweat is streaming into your eyeballs and you feel like Tyrion Lannister is standing on your chest throwing back a flagon of wine and mocking you for choosing to live somewhere so goddamn insufferably humid, humid. It gets humid, but not THAT kind of humid Bottom line: in the Great Lakes, boating isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifestyle.ĩ. And if you don’t have a boat yourself, you definitely have a friend who has a boat and, thus, get to reap all the benefits. Not so in the Great Lakes, where middle-class weekend warriors want nothing more to do with their day than go out on their boat. But in the high-rent coastal ocean towns, boating is very much the domain of the really really really ridiculously wealthy. Million-dollar sailboats, billion-dollar yachts, etc. OBVIOUSLY, there are lots and lots of boats out on the ocean. Sure, the lightning pulls off the water, but it provides a good show while you’re drinking the fine beer (see #2) Well, you have, but still it’s pretty wicked cool, and you’re missing out. If you’ve never watched a storm roll in over Lake Michigan at night, you haven’t really lived. Lake storms are a wonder to watch (and not at all life-threatening!) Annoying, for sure, but at least you can just pull them off.ħ. Maybe you’ve heard that Jaws is currently alive and well off North Carolina? Or how about the recent Great White sightings just off the coast of Surfside, CA? Yeah, the worst you’re going to get in the Great Lakes are leeches.

The Great Lakes region gets high windstorms and the occasional tiny tornado, but even then it’s certainly not Kansas. No ocean = no earthquakes = no tsunamis! Also no hurricanes, no typhoons, and no cyclones, because those too are the ocean’s burden. Math! Also, with earthquakes come tsunamis. The most frequent and most severe earthquakes occur in or near ocean trenches. … and the rare earthquake is no more than a barely perceptible tremor. There are no hurricanes, tsunamis, or typhoons… And when bashing upwind, open your mouth when a wave breaks over the bow. Get the wind from a certain direction and you’ll have plenty to pop up on a plane and get your giggle on. The water may be colder, but it’s wonderfully clean. So you know how when you go for a dip in the ocean and you come out covered in salt crust and with the distinct stench of rotting seaweed? Yeah, that doesn’t happen in the Great Lakes.

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Plus the other six Great Lakes states! (Calm it down New York, yes, you are pretty and special too.) Michigan isn’t the Great Beer State for naught, and Wisconsin hoards all of its brews because they’re so damn good. There’s a reason that some of the best beer in the country is coming out of the Great Lakes region: it’s being made with some of the best water IN THE COUNTRY. Better build yourself a war rig and strap a heavy-metal guitarist to the front, because you’re about to enter some crazy Mad Max times.Ģ. All that water and you can’t drink any of it, and once your fresh water reserves run out… well, that’s going to be one damn expensive irrigation trench you’re going to have to dig to the Great Lakes. Short of a having a billion-dollar desalination plant nearby, you’re screwed.

Oh, so you live on the ocean …hope you don’t get thirsty. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink While the spotlight on the sport tends to shine brighter on the oceans, here are 10 reasons why the Great Lakes are better…ġ.