Keweenaw snow photos

[dodge man]

Looks like no salt just sand?

 

[ArlyA]

Looks like no salt just sand?

It has salt in the sand.

 

[jjeff]

Mostly sand on side streets probably due to low temps/ cost and the fact if you were born up there your better at driving on snow and ice than other folks imo. they use salt on main highways like us 2, 41, M28 etc. Roads can be snow covered continuously from December-March some years.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is some snow pics I took while driving around today. Why I'm I driving around instead of at work?

This is looking north and down our street.

Jan's house down the street from us. She had the snow taken off her roof today. She retired here but taught tech school in IA.

This is a street we go up and down on a regular bases which occasionally gets slick and is quite steep. This is again looking north and at the canal. I seen a few front wheel drive cars not get up it this week. The ski area is mount Ripley. Snow tires and 4wd are your friends....

 

[jjeff]

You know you live in a snowbelt when the banks are at the bottoms of street signs half way thru winter. And you see equipment like this going down the road.

 

[Keweenaw County Yooper]

Calumet, Mi.

 

[MossRoad]

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OK, That's a lot of snow.

We have maybe 6-7 inches of powder on the ground down here.

 

[ArlyA]

This is the snow-go clearing our street a few years ago. Who doesn't have one?
Calumet gets more snow than we do.

 

[MossRoad]

This is the snow-go clearing our street a few years ago. Who doesn't have one?
Calumet gets more snow than we do. View attachment 731344

In Niles, MI, just at the southern edge of Michigan, they plow the streets to the center instead of the sides in the downtown area. It makes a big median. Then they do like that picture, blow it into trucks, and take it away.

But that picture really shows the depths. Looks to be as high as that roof of the building on the right. We'd be closed for a couple weeks with that much snow.

 

[jjeff]

Somewhere I have an old photo (before smartphones and digital cameras) of using a walk behind 2 stage snow blower to clear off my folks roof in the UP My dad drove it up on the roof using a huge snowdrift.