What is a quarry squall?

Answer 1

any non usable material left over from removing the salable material

Answer 2

The Erie Canal (currently part of the New York State Canal System) is a canal in New York State, United States, that runs from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Although the canal was first proposed in 1699, it was not until 1798 that the Niagara Canal Company was incorporated and commenced preparations for building. The first section of canal was completed in 1819, and the entire canal was opened on October 26, 1825. It was 363 miles (584 km) long, 40 feet (12 m) wide, and 4 feet (1.2 m) deep. There were 83 locks along the canal, each 90 feet by 15 feet (27 m by 4.5 m). Maximum canal-boat displacement was 75 tons (68 tonnes). The Erie Canal was the first transportation route faster than carts pulled by draft animals between the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and the western interior, and cut transport costs into what was then wilderness by about 95%. The Canal resulted in a massive population surge in western New York, and opened regions further west to increased settlement.

In 1856 just after the Civil War two brothers, Cain and Able Grin sought to enhance their family's income by starting fish farming in the abandoned stone quarries located near the Erie Canal's route. Since the sides of the Canal was to be lined with stone, while the bottom would be covered with clay, the stone work required hundreds of German masons to be brought in, who would later go on to build many of New York's famous buildings when the canal was completed. Thus thousands of cubic feet of stone was required and the stone came from those quarries. Quarry stone meant large, deep cavities all along the Canal and country side. Scars really and the locals could find no practical use for them. In time they filled with water and were, in many cases, dangerous.

After the Civil War and with the nation's economy booming again, railroads replaced the need for the Erie Canal. The brother Grin, Cain and Able, had a good thing going as their fish farms were a prodigious concern and the shekels began filling the family coffers. As always, the Law of Murphy bent its ugly head in the direction of the Brothers Grin enterprise about two months after they began training black bears for the Heckle & Jeckle National Circus.

True to his name, Able was not, as his temperament lacked the necessary attribut of patience. Therefore, Able raised Cain to the chore of training the bears. Mid summer found Able fish harvesting and Cane being the bearing that bared the bears development. Disaster struck around three p.m. on a Wednesday of the third week in July.

A perfect storm, as weathermen would say years later, picked-up off the New York shore, headed westerly, to converge with another storm off the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes storm, probably born of Lake Superior, headed easterly sweeping over Lake Michigan then Lake Huron and then over Lake Erie, crashing into the westerly storm from New York. The two came together over the Erie Canal.

Locals said the converging walls of rain were never as ever witnessed in recorded history. Those whom had lived and worked on the high seas described the both storms' approaching as the clash of titanic squalls. But the most strange thing about the storms' meeting were the cyclonic-like plumes of water that arose from each stone quarry as the squall lines passed over them. No one had ever seen that above a land mass.

Of course those water plumes arose from the Grin fish farms, sucking them empty. The gigantic squall-like storm died above the old Erie Canal that afternoon in a straight down rain the likes of which no one could recall. But, the most strange thing was that fish fell from the heavens for several minutes, covering the land with fish. Fish from the Grin fish farms. Fish sucked up by the converged squalls Squall fish. Quarry fish. Fish from a Quarry Squall and thus the name was born of the phenomenum -- a Quarry Squall. All because of two men with a vision to raise fish in quarries.

What happened to the Brothers Grin? Well their fish farming business died mostly because the quarries were empty of water and because people for miles around were covered with fish. However, circuses from far and wide heard of Cain's ability to train animals. So it is said that the brothers, though saddened by their loss could still be Grin and bear it.

Answer 3

a sudden sharp increase in wind speed that occurs in a quarry. usually associated with coastal and other maritime areas.