The Great Lakes can have their own little Tsunami, they are called Seich's ? I saw one many years ago on lake michigan wash fishermen off of a breakwater.
yea but im 30 miles in land so the only worries i have are tornadoes and planes crashing (i live under a runway lineup area)
I took a photo of a wave crashing half way up the Muskegon lighthouse. We turned around in the channel and didn't go into the lake that day.
"Strong winds frequently produce seiches on large lakes, but most are rather small in size — less than 30 cm (a foot) high — and go unnoticed amidst the general surface wave motions. However, during severe storm conditions, water-level differences greater than 5 metres (16 feet) have been observed between opposing lakeshores. Large seiches (i.e, greater than one metre (3 ft)) occur in the Great Lakes basin every year, usually from May to September. The Great Lake most affected by seiches is Lake Erie because it is the shallowest and its basin is often aligned with storm wind directions. One passing storm set up a seiche in 1979 that resulted in a water-level difference of 4.3 metres (14 feet) between Toledo and Buffalo." source
PS- Spent plenty o' time seichin' on Lake Michigan as a yute.