Great Lakes
About Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes. The lakes connect ultimately to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River as their primary drainage outflow. The lakes are also connected to the Mississippi River basin through the Illinois Waterway.
On the show — 12 mentions total
At the bottom you've got the Great Lakes, sort of celebrity lakes. Then there's this line stretching across the country above which it's just monstrously full of lakes, just lakes everywhere, like throw a brick.
from 593: No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 at 00:18:32 · read transcript
Other times Great Lakes came up
No they're not. This is amazing though, there are these things called sashes and the most famous one is in Lake Erie which is one of the Great Lakes. Basically it happens if there's a really strong wind that's going in one direction on a lake and it keeps pushing the water up to one end and then the wind suddenly stops, then the water, you can imagine like in a bath, swings backwards and it does extraordinary things like in 2008 there were 16 feet high waves in Lake Erie that flooded, it's Buffalo I think in New York that always gets flooded, in 1844 there was a 22 foot high Seiche wave which caused this flood in Buffalo which destroyed the town completely just from this swinging Lake crazy 78 people died it stopped the Niagara Falls from flowing because it dammed it up because like the force of all the water pushed the ice at the top of Niagara Falls and stopped it flowing what just from this swinging Lake isn't that cool it's very cool not the deaths but yeah the other stuff there's a long time ago.
593: No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 · listen
Wow. Geese. Mussels get a bad reputation, don't they? If you look up mussels, there's pretty much no one's got a good word to say about them. They're invasive species everywhere and they're a problem in the Great Lakes in America, I think. Are they quagga mussels? Quaggas. Quaggas and zebra mussels, I think. In America they have zebra ones and here we have quaggas but they're both named after sort of horse-like creatures.
108: No Such Thing As Samurai Olaf, 2016-04-08 · listen
What a grimly prophetic name. Yeah, they ruin ecosystems, like ecosystems, don't they? In Great Lakes, they eat all the algae, I think, which then stops feeding organisms, which then feed other organisms, then it wipes out everything. So you'll just have a lake full of muscles, which is a disaster. I think they shouldn't get such a bad rep because they are natural water filters.
No Such Thing As Samurai Olaf, 2016-04-08 · listen
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593: No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey put 9 places on the map.
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Coordinates: 45.0000, -84.0000