Wow, 44 inches and those kinds of winds. Scary.
I don’t quite understand the national media attention to this area either, I mean it is mostly a local problem, we’ll make it through. I guess because a large number of people are impacted? CNN covering it doesn’t really help me any. I still have 300+ feet of driveway to clear with 30+ inches of snow.
Howdy from off the edge of the known world There-They-Be-Dragons-Land.
It wasn’t on ABCBSMSNBC, no mediots deigned to record themselves in it, no Urgent Edicts only applicable to the little people were issued.
Didn’t happen, therefore.
Seriously though, that’s some rough weather. However have Yoopers survived all these years without media and government telling them what to do?
Great words and absolutely true, HOWEVER not an equal comparison simply because of the numbers involved. Both the raw population numbers and the economic impact are orders of magnitude larger here. There are more people without power right now in Southern New England than live in the entire UP (and could probably include everything north of Bay City) at the peak of summer. Where is the official line between “downstate” and “up north” these days?
That “report” has been circulating around the internet for years (as far vack as 2005), well before 2010, and often attributed to places other than Michigan. The point it makes is a good one, but it’s likely not factually true.