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November
is dubbed "The Month of Storms" on the Great Lakes. The storm that
hit when the Fitzgerald went down was one of the biggest, and the worst
that Captain McSorley said he had ever
seen. In the Fitzgerald's storm, winds as fast as 45 knots were
reported, with waves as high as thirty feet. Both water pumps on the
Edmund Fitzgerald were damaged, and the lifeboats were destroyed by the
force of the storm. Shown below is a surface analysis chart of the storm.
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