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3catwoman3

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1. When my husband and I were first married in Jan 1982, he got stationed in the UP...
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 11:09 AM
Nov 29

...Michigan at K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base. We were there until September of 1986. The 4 winters we spent there forever changed our perspective on what "a lot" of snow is. I was already not easily impressed, having grown up Rochester NY in the Lake Ontario snow belt that runs from Buffalo to Syracuse.

Quite the contrast when we were next stationed in the Washington DC area at Andrews AFB, where everything gets canceled and the bread-and-milk lines form at the grocery stores if snow is even predicted, let alone if it actually falls.

Average winter snowfall in the UP is 200+ inches a year -

There is a very tall snow gauge in one of the towns up there -

https://www.visitkeweenaw.com/listing/the-keweenaw-snow-gauge/717/

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