Don Day, meteorologist for Cowboy State Daily, was on the path to becoming a weather buff from an early age. He recalls the way his adolescent ears perked up as the storm bulletins crackled through the kitchen radio of his home in Farmington, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
And though he was only 8 years old, he uniquely remembers what came through the radio on Nov. 10, 1975, when a meteorological phenomenon known as “The Witch of November” sank the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, killing all 29 crew members. Not a single body was recovered.
“I remember it vividly. Anybody who was around the Great Lakes region in the mid 70s will remember when it happened.”…