challenges, I think. It's a flat land area. It's not mountainous. So when the winds are blowing, you're susceptible to crosswinds or from whatever direction, extreme water levels like I just explained, can drop very quickly. And then when the water levels drop, of course, the currents pick up out of the Maumee River and the currents can also be severe, and they also can be caused by rainfall. If you've got rains for a couple days, that current in the Maumee River is really ripping through there. Plus, you got a lot of mud, and you got seasonal shoaling. They dredge it all the time and keep it pretty cleaned up, but still -- fortunately, it's mud in there and not rock. Just to show you how severe the levels can drop, that's Toledo in 2003. It happened to be a big blow that came through really fast, and it just -- it dropped everything 4 or 5 feet. I'm not sure what it was. It was at least 5 feet. So this is around the docks. A couple of those tug boats are aground. That ship, I was told is aground. And you can get the picture. So this is a slide from just this month, two weeks ago, showing the water level change. Now this isn't the stormy time of year. This is just -- this is summer. It's supposed to be pretty calm, but even so, with the 25 knot wind that day the water level dropped 20 inches. You can see that on the far right side of the slide, 20 inches in probably about six hours. And we're running over the ground couple feet. Toledo's got another really cool bridge. It's an overhead bridge called the Anthony Wayne Bridge, and it's clearance over low water datum is 10 feet less than what the Welland Canal and the Saint Lawrence Seaway is. Again, what were they thinking? Probably it was so old they weren't thinking about it. But the ships we bring in there and we go up all the way to the head of navigation, and we have to go under this bridge. And we have to have the ship captains do everything
challenges, I think. It's a flat land area. It's not mountainous. So when the winds are blowing, you're susceptible to crosswinds or from whatever direction, extreme water levels like I just explained, can drop very quickly. And then when the water levels drop, of course, the currents pick up out of the Maumee River and the currents can also be severe, and they also can be caused by rainfall. If you've got rains for a couple days, that current in the Maumee River is really ripping through there. Plus, you got a lot of mud, and you got seasonal shoaling. They dredge it all the time and keep it pretty cleaned up, but still -- fortunately, it's mud in there and not rock. Just to show you how severe the levels can drop, that's Toledo in 2003. It happened to be a big blow that came through really fast, and it just -- it dropped everything 4 or 5 feet. I'm not sure what it was. It was at least 5 feet. So this is around the docks. A couple of those tug boats are aground. That ship, I was told is aground. And you can get the picture. So this is a slide from just this month, two weeks ago, showing the water level change. Now this isn't the stormy time of year. This is just -- this is summer. It's supposed to be pretty calm, but even so, with the 25 knot wind that day the water level dropped 20 inches. You can see that on the far right side of the slide, 20 inches in probably about six hours. And we're running over the ground couple feet. Toledo's got another really cool bridge. It's an overhead bridge called the Anthony Wayne Bridge, and it's clearance over low water datum is 10 feet less than what the Welland Canal and the Saint Lawrence Seaway is. Again, what were they thinking? Probably it was so old they weren't thinking about it. But the ships we bring in there and we go up all the way to the head of navigation, and we have to go under this bridge. And we have to have the ship captains do everything