“I got a little tidbit for you. During the 2000 election debacle, there actually was a group from Republic that were all packed up and armed and ready to go to Florida. I heard the local wisemen talked them out of it.”
I can believe that. I lived in the western UP for a time. There’s some hardscrabble boys in the UP. Lots of combat vets who are crack shots and can live off the land. And a number of sheriffs up there are constitutional sheriffs who strongly support the 2nd amendment.
The winters, though, are long and boring.
“The winters, though, are long and boring.”
Man have you ever got that right. A person can figure 7 months up on the north shore and the south shore isnt to bad. That side is similar to Green Bay and all. I spent 12 years in the Munising area-about 200 inch a year average and 14 years in the Marquette area which is about the same...unless a person lives right in Marquette along the Lake shore. There it isnt too bad. The worst of the worst is the Copper Country up around Calumet-there are only two other places in this country that gets as much or more snow than there. Buffalo NY and the Sierras.
When I lived around Munising, I actually had a few winters where I couldnt look out the windows because of the snow I shoveled off my roof had banks higher than the windows. Want to know what cabin fever is like? People havent any idea.