Gales of November
hen Gordon Lightfoot sang about “the gales of November” in “The Wreck of the ” he wasn’t just sank November 10, 1975. The 90-milesper-hour winds of the so-called Big Blow or White Hurricane of November 7–10, 1913, took down a dozen ships. The 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard claimed three. The sank on Lake Huron on November 29, 1966, leaving one survivor, who clung to a life raft for nearly 40 hours in a pea coat and underwear.
