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Final update on the “big swim” across Lake Michigan
Neil and Sara Tow, the former local couple who’ve trained for the past year to make an epic swim across Lake Michigan, made a heroic effort, but unfortunately, fell about 10 miles short.
Update on the “big swim” across Lake Michigan by a “local” couple
Recently, I posted a story “Cool thoughts: awaiting an epic swim across Lake Michigan by “local couple”. Well, the swim is underway, water temperatures are tolerable (near 70), and the swimmers are confident.
Awaiting an epic swim across Lake Michigan
In mid-August, at the 50-mile wide mid-point of Lake Michigan, a once-local couple now living in the Grand Rapids, MI area, will attempt a staggering 30-35 hour swim across the lake, one never before accomplished by a husband-wife team. Jeff Tow, who, as a youngster, swam competitively in Montgomery County, MD, and his wife Sara, have been preparing for this swim all their lives.
Hurricane Agnes: A look back after 40 years
Just as the Watergate scandal was unfolding, residents of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast would have to deal with a tropical system that had formed over the Yucatan Peninsula on June 14th. That system, dubbed Agnes, would later cause some of the worst flooding ever recorded in the region’s, particularly Pennsylvania.
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