Both its construction and its continued maintenance were complicated in the extreme by the severe weather conditions of the area, being at the end of the long fetch of the waves on Lake Michigan, which then are amplified as they build upon the shoal.
Both its construction and its continued maintenance were complicated in the extreme by the severe weather conditions of the area. The extreme by the severe weather conditions of the area were being at the end of the long fetch of the waves on Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan then are amplified. They build upon the shoal.