What is "The Lake" where you live?

[hedgehog]

Around here, "The Lake" is Ontario. In Buffalo, it's Erie. It might be a local thing since the lake effect snow comes off "The Lake".

[Gormy Cuss]

1. We call it "the ocean"

Pacific, that is. It gets blamed for our most interesting weather patterns.

[Maine-ah]

104. lol, that's my reply...

except we call it the Atlantic.....

[Gormy Cuss]

116. That was "the ocean" for me until recently.

I sometimes forget that people in California are talking about the one we have right here, and when I am headed towards the ocean I think I'm going east, LOL.

[Beausoir]

2. In the winter...Gilbert. In the summer...Carlos.

I grew up on the lakes of MN.

[LaraMN]

3. Lake Superior.

She's a big 'un...

[kmla]

7. Isn't that the big lake they call...

Gitchy Goomy?

[LaraMN]

12. Gitchi Gummi, I think, but yeah.

:thumbsup:

[Sequoia]

22. By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,

By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

[Puglover]

102. I live 6 blocks from Lake Nokomis! n/t

[Divameow77]

119. I live by

Nokomis too :-)

[Beausoir]

53. When the gales of November come early.

A very formidable body of water. Damn cold, too.

[schmuls]

4. Lake Michigan (Milwaukee Wisconsin)

[liontamer]

5. the lake

in central park

[FedUpWithIt All]

6. Erie n/t

[trof]

8. Bay. Wolf Bay. (photo link)

Coastal Alabama, just north of the Intracoastal Waterway.
And I am right smack dab on the western shore.
It's beautiful.

The gray dock, closest to shore, center of picture is mine.
If this works.
http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=&z=18&ll=30.350463,-87.60401&spn=0.003213,0.004989&t=h&om=1

[BarenakedLady]

9. Your lake is my lake

Ontario baby.

[ceile]

10. Lake Travis

or Town Lake depending the side of town you live on.

[Flying Dream Blues]

74. Me, too, ceile! Or Lake Austin...

[Gato Moteado]

75. i used to live by that lake (town lake).....

....but it's not really a lake. it's part of the colorado river.

[AllegroRondo]

11. Lake of the Ozarks

which is actually more of a flooded river.

[azmouse]

13. We have Lake Pleasant and Lake Roosevelt in AZ

But they're really reservoirs instead.

[terrya]

14. Lake Michigan

The one that's shaped like a penis. :-)

[montanto]

15. "Silverlake" Los Angeles

Which is more of a concrete reservoir.

[Tikki]

32. We always take ''out of town" folks to...

Silver Lake and surrounding area.....in many ways this is the
real Los Angeles.

Hey montanto...welcome to DU :hi:

The Tikkis

[montanto]

83. Thanks, Tikkis.

Silverlake: Love it here. Just up the street from Spaceland, Backdoor Bakery and Netti's. Right across from the dog park. Great vibe but I'd hate to see it turn into Melrose.

[Xipe Totec]

16. No lake, just Turner's pond

But Walden Pond is only 10 minutes away.

[City Lights]

17. Lake Michigan. eom

[NewWaveChick1981]

18. Oak Hollow Lake.

:hi:

[LSK]

19. Lake Michigan

[Phillycat]

20. Erm, we call it "tha shore" and it's the Atlantic Ocean. nt

[seemunkee]

21. No lakes, the Bay

Chesapeake Bay

[nykiera]

23. Lake Ontario.

[huskerlaw]

24. The Pacific Ocean?

I suppose it could refer to Lake Tahoe, but that's about 8 hours north of here.

[Auggie]

25. San Pablo Bay

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

26. Lake Michigan, the only one of the five Great Lakes

that is entirely within the US.

[sarge43]

27. Winnipesaukee n/t

[hedgehog]

46. Now, you folks have an excuse for saying "the Lake"! nt

[sarge43]

67. It does cover a lot of ground. n/t

[LisaM]

28. Lake Washington, I guess, though people call it "the water"

Eastsiders live on the other side of the water.

I live nearer to Greenlake.

Growing up, I guess I would have considered Lake Huron "the lake" since we went there most often (in Michigan) of the Great Lakes, though we also had a lake in my little town.

[Initech]

29. Lake Elsinore

But most people in So. Cal go to either Lake Havasu or the Colorado River in Laughlin.

[u4ic]

30. A river - the North Saskatchewan, to be exact

[PVnRT]

31. The River (Wabash River)

n/t

[Aristus]

33. Well, around here, we've got "The Sound"; Puget Sound.

Although in my particular neighborhood, if you're talking about "the lake", then you probably mean Lake Tapps.

[Ramsey]

34. Tampa Bay

Is my lake.

[Cadfael]

35. Lake Michigan

[WritingIsMyReligion]

36. We have "the ocean."

:P

[MichiganVote]

37. Whadda kiddin'? This is Michigan, there's a lake 20 min. in any direction

[Left Is Write]

38. There isn't one.

[RetroLounge]

39. Lake Michigan, here in Milwaukee

RL

[Kelly Rupert]

40. Michigan.

[mainegreen]

41. It's called the Altantic. It's cold and salty and serves up lobster.

Which we boil.
Alive.

[fudge stripe cookays]

64. Dontcha mean "lobstah?"

;-)

For a laugh, check out the book "Julie and Julia." I was reading it during a recent trip and laughing myself silly. She decides to cook all the recipes in "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" by Julia Child.

Her descriptions of buying fresh lobster and killing it is hysterical-- her guilt, and the eyes on stalks, the whole thing. Ayup.

[mainegreen]

65. Sounds funny. I think I will check that out.

If it's the lobster thermador recipe from that cookbook, I've actually made it! Julia's recipes tend to come out great, but are rather involved.

[fudge stripe cookays]

66. I believe that is what is called "understatement!"

Some of the procedures are hysterical.

I think she mentions the Thermador, but she has a whole slew of recipes in the one chapter that call for lobster, so she does them all. The "aspic" chapter is especially funny.

:hi:
fsc

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. Lake Ray Hubbard.

Outside of Dallas.

[yellowdogintexas]

45. Over here we have Lake Worth, Eagle Mountain, Benbrook

and Lake Grapevine. For a bit of a drive you can add Possum Kingdom, Lake Arlington, Joe Pool Lake, and Ray Hubbard. I love driving over Lake Ray Hubbard!

Texas only has ONE naturally occurring lake!!! Caddo Lake in East Texas, in the Piney Woods.

[hedgehog]

49. Well, see, you have "lakes". We're talking about "The Lake"

which everyone in your area knows immediately what you're talking about. For example " That's a lot of wind off The Lake today. It's a good thing it's too warm for snow."

[yellowdogintexas]

98. I guess it would be the one closest to you..Must confess, if a

friend says to me "we are going to the Lake"..I would have to say which one?

Now, where I grew up in Kentucky..it was Kentucky Lake definitely.

[av8rdave]

107. Guess I'd go with Lake Grapevine, since I live in Grapevine

Used to ski that lake from time to time.

[Redstone]

43. I know what you mean, but we don't have one. Where I grew up, it was Neal Pond.

Here, there's no Lake because we're near the ocean.

Redstone

[baldguy]

44. Lake Eerie

[hedgehog]

47. Is that the one with the 6 eyed fish?

[Dukkha]

57. it's with the Cuyahoga river, so polluted it was flammable

Fires plagued the Cuyahoga beginning in 1936 when a spark from a blow torch ignited floating debris and oils. Fires erupted on the river several more times before June 22, 1969, when a river fire captured the attention of Time magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays". This event helped spur an avalanche of pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal and state Environmental Protection Agency. As a result, large point sources of pollution on the Cuyahoga have received significant attention from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in recent decades. These events are referred to in Randy Newman's 1972 song "Burn On" and R.E.M.'s 1986 song "Cuyahoga." Water quality has improved and, in recognition of this improvement, the Cuyahoga River was designated as one of 14 American Heritage Rivers in 1998. Yet, pollution problems, including nonpoint source problems, Combined Sewer Overflows, and stagnation due to water impounded by dams, remain. For this reason, the Environmental Protection Agency classified portions of the Cuyahoga River Watershed as one of 43 Great Lakes Areas of Concern.

[hedgehog]

63. Guess where all that water ends up after going over Niagara Falls?

I'd make a rude remark, but it's the mercury from the coal burning plants and acid rain that's really getting to us here in New York. There's lot's of good fishing in Lake Ontario, just don't eat any (and maybe you better not throw any back in because that'd be illegal disposal of toxic waste.)

But I'm being too hard on Ohio. New York has you beat with Onondaga Lake anyways. Onondaga is so polluted that there's no real agreement as to where the bottom is. The water just keeps getting thicker and thicker the deeper you go.

[filer]

48. Lake Thunderbird

Named after the Army's 45th division mascot. The thunderbird is a condor or a big vulture. Locals refer to this lake as Dirtybird or occasionally Thundermud. Two guesses why.

[Ediacara]

50. "The Lake" is an old gravel pit that water is diverted into

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=bozeman&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=45.703887,-111.034055&spn=0.007672,0.021629&t=k&om=1

[greendog]

51. Flathead Lake

[Courtesy Flush]

52. The Gulf of Mexico... but no Gulf effect snow n/t

[hedgehog]

54. Give global climate change a chance.

Tornadoes in Brooklyn, why not snow off the Gulf?

On edit - with some of the crazy weather I saw here today, I think we may get Gulf effect snow up here in Central New York this winter! What else would you call it if moisture from the Gulf ends up here as snow?

[PassingFair]

55. St. Clair

It's just down the street.

[aePrime]

56. Lake Coeur d'Alene

One of the many many lakes around Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

58. It's called the Atlantic Ocean.

Sometimes referred to as the Big Pond. But last night she was not a pond at all as we got some significant storms and waves that rocked our boat pretty good. :puke:

[SeattleGirl]

59. Lake Washington is the biggest one around here.

[Ptah]

60. It's called the Wilcox Playa.

http://www.wildherps.com/travels/Arizona2000/index.html

"Our first stop was in Willcox, AZ. A few miles outside of town is
a large swampy area known as Wilcox Playa. (Experts disagree on
how many L's to put in the town and Playa's names.) Well, anyway,
the wildlife viewing guide said it is swampy, and perhaps it is a bit
swampy if you come at the right time of year, and in the right year.
This part of Arizona has been suffering from a severe drought for years,
and we spied nary a swamp."

http://rossbeyer.net/photos/chiricahuas/










:rofl: :rofl: Lake? :rofl: :rofl: Water? :rofl: :silly:

[RevCheesehead]

61. Michigan.

[bertha katzenengel]

62. If it weren't the Chesapeake Bay, I guess it would be a lake. But we have

a little pond nearby, with plenty of geese - white ones, Canada ones, and chocolate milk ones - and ducks, and, occasionally, a blue heron. LOVE me them blue herons. Mrs. V. calls them Ichabod. Ichabod Heron. Get it? ;)

[fizzgig]

68. lake...hmmm...lake...

this is the closest "real" lake that i can think of (grand lake)



other than that, it means city park lake a few blocks from my house

as an aside, the word "lake" starts to look weird if you look at it too long

[Heidi]

69. Lago Maggiore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_Maggiore

View of Lago Maggiore from our bedroom balcony:

[Raffi Ella]

112. That is unreal.

Lucky you. B-)

[Lumily]

70. Lake Lanier.

It's about 40 minutes north of Atlanta, but I live less than 1/2 a mile from it.

It looks like hell now. We need lots more rain to fill it back up.

[RebelOne]

109. My son lives close to it up in Dawsonville.

The big one in my area is Lake Altoona in Acworth.

[bicentennial_baby]

71. That would be the Atlantic ocean

I can see it from my window. :)

[Bassic]

72. There are shitloads of lakes around here.

In fact, there are about 400 000 lakes in the whole province of Québec.

[Burma Jones]

73. There are no naturally occuring lakes in Maryland

We have reservoirs, the most well known of which I suppose is Lake Needwood which threatened to burst through its earthen dam this last spring........we do have the Atlantic though and Assawoman Bay.....

[sniffa]

76. the Lake of fire of course

it used to be the quabbin before the activist judges LegisLated god's wrath on us.

[madinmaryland]

77. The Chesapeake!

[DrDan]

78. Lake Atlantic

quite large - cannot see the other side

[soleft]

79. East River - ony rainy nights smells like the Ocean

[yvr girl]

80. English Bay, False Creek, Burrard Inlet, Strait of Georgia

Which all merge with the Pacific Ocean

[Chiyo-chichi]

81. Lake Monroe

John Mellencamp and some bald eagles have homes on the lake.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

82. White Meadow Lake aka "White Ghetto Lake"

It's like a playground for drunken 40-year-olds. I think my immune system is stronger for having grown up swimming in that lake. Us lake kids built up a fuckin' immunity to that thing. It was awesome.

[shanti]

84. folsom lake

n/t

[chknltl]

85. Commencement Bay

Looking over my shoulder and out the window across I-5 is an arm of Puget Sound called Commencement Bay. (Wait a minute let me check.....yep still there). The Olympic Mountains are just a bit further but they've been hidden behind a bunch of rain-laden storm clouds. A Century ago this view would have made for a great landscape photo, today most of it is commercial/industrial.

[shanti]

90. i know commencement bay!

used to live in tacoma in the late 70's. btw, what's the name of that neighborhood in tacoma that is RIGHT on the water? it's a group of houses jammed together near the bay and pretty well known. i just can't remember the name for the life of me!

[chknltl]

97. There are a few...

Ruston and Old Town are close to the water with Old Town being almost on the water. There is one community that has no road to it close by Pt. Defiance Park...that name eludes me but I keep thinking "Sunnyside" or "Sunset Beach" or somesuch...(Folks park their cars up on the bluff and walk down to the community). Then there is Day Island which is also on the west side, connected by a couple of bridges, then Titlow Beach and further south is Steillacoom but that is not exactly in Tacoma. Does that help?
I live just about a mile from the head of the bay just uphill from I-5 on the Puallup Reservation.

btw: I accidentally posted my response to this thread under your name instead of where it should have gone like everyone else did...I thought about fixing that but got distracted...what a coincidence that I posted under the name of someone from T-Town :hi:

[Shell Beau]

86. We have "The Reservoir". A man-made lake that

flows into the Pearl River.

[Lyric]

87. Cheat Lake

There's a funny interstate sign near it that says:

Cheat Lake
Fairchance Road

I actually saw that sign in my high school driver's ed textbook as an example of humorous signs around the country.

[ScreamingMeemie]

88. Lake St. Clair... Connecter lake between Huron and Erie; turns into

the Detroit River and is exactly 476 steps from my front door. BabyG counted once. :D

[yellowdogmi]

89. I love that lake.

I remember a trip out to strawberry island in may to waterski. really cold. bad idea. I was stationed at selfridge.

[1gobluedem]

108. Reminds me of a story about Lake St. Clair

I have some friends in New Hampshire who live near Lake Winnipesaukee; when I went to their house for the first time and they were giving me directions they mentioned the 'big lake.' Winnipesaukee is certainly a large lake but you can see across it! When I got there I mentioned that, in Michigan, because of the Great Lakes, 'big lakes' are only those you can't see across. They both said "You can't see across the Great Lakes? Really?" So, I got out a map and showed them Lake St. Clair, saying "See this little puddle right here? You can't see across that either." They were dumbfounded.

That fall a grad student from Virginia began to work for me. He took a trip for a speaking competition up to Lake Superior State and came back exclaiming about how huge the Great Lakes are. I said "You didn't know?" He said he never thought about it. So, getting out my trusty map again I traced the state of Virginia and superimposed it on top of Lake Superior. They're almost the exact same size. Again, utter amazement.

I can't believe there are people who don't realize how big the Great Lakes are. Don't they see it on a map?

[mcctatas]

91. Winnebago...

which roughly translates to "Big Smelly", although I think the snow comes off lake Michigan...thank god, who'd want smelly snow!

[Hangingon]

92. Copano Bay

[RushIsRot]

93. Table Rock Lake -- man-made.

It's about as close as any to where I live.

[Gelliebeans]

94. Lake Skinner

hee hee seriously

[sweetheart]

95. The north atlantic

'the sea' There is no loch here of any signicant size, more lochan dubh's rather.

[ZombieNixon]

96. Michigan.

:headbang:

[Bridget Burke]

99. Clear Lake?

It empties into Galveston Bay & is not very clear. To the north, we have Lake Conroe--which was just the San Jacinto River, before they built a dam.

Texas is definitely Lake-Deficient; most of our lakes are dammed up rivers. Caddo Lake is the main exception--full of Cypress trees, mosquitos & gators.

The beautiful, deep lakes Up North are quite wonderful.

[Puglover]

100. Lake Minnetonka. n/t

[CottonBear]

101. NE GA: Lake Oconee, Lake Russell, Lake Hartwell & Clarkes Hill Lake

which was renamed (on the SC side only because we Georgians refuse to give up using the lake's true name which is that of a Revolutionary war hero) ...

wait for it...
...
...














Lake Strom Thurmond. :( :puke:

[Lochloosa]

103. Two, but they aren't lakes

St. Johns River



Jax Beach, Atlantic Ocean

[Patiod]

105. What's the difference between a lake & inland sea

My first thought when I saw Lake Michigan was "that ain't a lake, that's a sea"

[ProfessorGAC]

106. The Difference Is The Name!

Actually, there are, iirc, some technical considerations. I think the topography of the bottom is one of them. I think the another is the general direction that rivers flow. If they flow predominantly INTO the large body of water, i think that makes them more a "sea". If most rivers run out, they're a lake.

I'm not sure those are fully correct, but it's something like that.

But, your point is well taken. Three of the 5 Great Lakes are immense! And, Lake Baikal is deeper than the Caspian or Black Seas. So, go figure!
The Professor

[hedgehog]

117. I think it's a case of salt water versus fresh.

although the Sea of Galilee is fresh, so it's a casual rule.

By the way, did you know that there are salt mines in downtown Cleveland and Detroit It's really scary to think of what would happen if a mine should collapse and contaminate this great mass of fresh water. Several towns in in the Genessee Valley in NYS lost their wells back in 1994 when a similar salt mine collapsed and contaminated the aquifer.

[SteppingRazor]

110. Here, it'd be Lake Okeechobee. Back when I lived in Missouri...

it was Lake of the Ozarks.

[flvegan]

111. Used to be Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg

When I lived in MA. The spaces are for the Posting Error I got for not using spaces. It's all one word.

Now, it's the Tampa Bay, I guess.

[texanwitch]

113. No lake but I have a bayou with lots of wildlife and a little creek.

The only lake would be Lake Houston, that's a good distance from my house.

[LynneSin]

114. We call it 'The River' which is both the Delaware and Brandywine

there are no lakes here in Delaware - just an ocean

[Patiod]

120. Well, we have the Schuylkill.....

in addition to the Delaware.

Have been rafting on the Brandywine, which is a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon

[Raffi Ella]

115. Just north of here is Lake Lanier,about a 30 minute drive.

But the river,a section of The Chattahoochee River(of Deliverance infamy)is just around the corner from me.
I go over there all the time w/ my dog to hike on the trails nearby.You can go tubing down it in Summer but it's freezing cold even then and there are places where you can wade out into the middle of the river and sit on enormous rocks and fish.

[NYCGirl]

118. Central Park!