“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
It
was a spooky time to be out at sea off the US East Coast on Halloween
in 1991. A strong storm system over the maritime provinces in Canada
merged with the remnants of Hurricane Grace, forming a new, epic, and
dangerous Nor’easter. The winds of this new storm breached 70 miles per
hour and a wave as high as 100 feet was
measured off the coast of Nova Scotia, but the storm was not renamed as
either a tropical storm or a hurricane – instead, it is known only
colloquially as simply the Perfect Storm. Six fishermen from
Massachusetts perished when their vessel Andrea Gail sunk in
open waters, and the story of the storm and of that tragedy became the
subject of a best-selling book and a blockbuster feature film. (more)
