THE DEADLY DERECHO
Feb 25, 2021
3 minutes
BY MICHAEL MOORE
The scenery at Lake Lila—pristine waters and old growth forest—can take your breath away. On July 15, 1995, one of Lila’s trees nearly killed us, felled by a derecho: an intense, destructive storm of straight-line winds.
I was canoe camping with two 11-year-olds, my daughter Erin and my niece Elizabeth. Paddling in, we passed our favorite campsite. The girls had named it “Blueberry Point” for the berry bushes that sweetened our
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