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.
Back in about 95 when I was living up north there was a storm that dumped 6 feet in the area of the Mackinaw straits area north to Sault Ste Marie. The bridge was shut down and the National Guard were fueling tractor trailers along the road so they could keep running for heat.
Fortunately it wasn’t quite as bad where I was but I got caught walking in that storm. I had taken a bus north from down near Jackson and my girlfriend was going to pick me up at Claire but she ended up snowed in. Fortunately the NG found me wading through 2 and a half feet of snow on the interstate. They took me the 20 odd miles right to my front door.