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"I guessed 240 inches, and lost. That year the lake effect snowfall reached 400 inches."
Work sent me up to Marquette on the Monday of Good Friday week, I think it was late
March ( years ago ). I'd travel up on Monday morning, and come back Thursday afternoon. Had a ton of work to do down in a windowless equipment room on Thursday. It was snowing hard when I got to work at 6am, but nothing I hadn't seen before.
Around 10am, one of the local techs poked her head in and asked if I was going back home, and told me if I was that I'd best leave ASAP. We were in the middle of the biggest lake effect snowstorm I've ever seen. They got 72 inches of snow in 24 hours. No exaggeration. The Houghton area got more, so I was real lucky I had worked there the previous week. The local's advice for driving was to go south toward the Lake Michigan shoreline, and avoid at all costs trying to go back via the Lake Superior shoreline highway, even though it was fewer miles. It was hairy driving, but got slightly better the further I got s and e of Marquette and Lake Superior. Remember being one of the last vehicles allowed to cross the Mackinac Bridge before they shut it down. And once in the lower Peninsula, it was just a garden variety snowstorm. Also remember my boss coming up to me and shaking my hand, telling me how glad he was to see me back safe,lol. Must have been feeling guilty.
I still visit up there in the winter, definitely check the weather forecasts
before leaving home. The plow crews do an incredible job of clearing snow and laying down sand for traction. As a retiree, I'd just stay put till the LE snow
machine calmed down, if I got caught up in anything like that work experience.
