[Locomotive Breath]

... but superior is more like an ocean than a lake ...

I grew up on an ocean. The ocean is a friend of mine. Superior is no ocean.

Seriously, yes Superior can be extremely rough but there's just no comparison to the open ocean where "stuff" can build and blow in from 1,000 miles away.

[Alberta's Child]

I had a Coast Guard helicopter pilot tell me that Lake Superior was as bad as anything he’d seen in the North Atlantic.