Give me a tornado anyday over a hurricane
Can't take much more. :( I used to think how great it was to have such advance warning for a disastrous weather event. Unlike the tornadoes that I am used. 1.Two days ago it showed it was going ...
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GordonThree didn't say he has 9 months of winter but rather that he'd rather have 9 months of winter over having hurricanes, or maybe he meant the other bad events other areas experience.
We have lived on the West Michigan shoreline west of Grand Rapids for over 75 years now and own/and have owned places in Northern Michigan and one near the Straits (Burt Lake) about 30 miles south of the Big Mac bridge for the last 43 years. Not far at all from GordonThree. We'd go there a lot and often take our snowmobiles but there wasn't any snow so they never cme off the trailer! Winter normally doesn't even start up there until the end of November at the earliest as we know from experience and winter is over in April at the latest. Last winter for exmple wasn't even a real winter up there as very little snow fell and it didn't even have long cold spells. Winter up there is in the range of 4-1/2 months.
Where we live, winter is barely 3-1/2 months long and some years only 2 months long or even less. The summer warmed huge deep water in Lake Michigan blows its warm air over the westside of the state and keeps it much warmer and on the Wisconsin side. Very seldom have any snow before December 15th and the snow is almost always gone by April first and the great Lakes shipping season on the lakes opens by the 2nd week in April. Couldn't have ships if there was still a lot of ice on the lakes.
You want cold and winter? Go west or north of the Great Lakes!
Lots of campgrounds are open all year in Michigan and have lots of campers using them. Several of the State Parks are also open year around including in the Upper Peninsula too and alss the CG at Sleeping Bear Lakeshore NP. Camped at Tahquamenon Falls State Park in the far north Upper Peninsula CG in January and February many times with our RV's over the years.
We have lived on the West Michigan shoreline west of Grand Rapids for over 75 years now and own/and have owned places in Northern Michigan and one near the Straits (Burt Lake) about 30 miles south of the Big Mac bridge for the last 43 years. Not far at all from GordonThree. We'd go there a lot and often take our snowmobiles but there wasn't any snow so they never cme off the trailer! Winter normally doesn't even start up there until the end of November at the earliest as we know from experience and winter is over in April at the latest. Last winter for exmple wasn't even a real winter up there as very little snow fell and it didn't even have long cold spells. Winter up there is in the range of 4-1/2 months.
Where we live, winter is barely 3-1/2 months long and some years only 2 months long or even less. The summer warmed huge deep water in Lake Michigan blows its warm air over the westside of the state and keeps it much warmer and on the Wisconsin side. Very seldom have any snow before December 15th and the snow is almost always gone by April first and the great Lakes shipping season on the lakes opens by the 2nd week in April. Couldn't have ships if there was still a lot of ice on the lakes.
You want cold and winter? Go west or north of the Great Lakes!
Lots of campgrounds are open all year in Michigan and have lots of campers using them. Several of the State Parks are also open year around including in the Upper Peninsula too and alss the CG at Sleeping Bear Lakeshore NP. Camped at Tahquamenon Falls State Park in the far north Upper Peninsula CG in January and February many times with our RV's over the years.
