Today’s archive shots actually look like it was spring in the Copper Country areas. Even though this first photo that was snapped by Jon Hopper was slushy and mushy on US41 and needed to be cleared by the snowplow, you could still tell it was Spring. Sure, the ground was white but if you look closely, there weren’t huge snowbanks on the side of the road.

In 2002, the photo Kelly Wenberg shared definitely looked like Spring, complete with a bit of flooding going on in the Askel/Arnheim area. Charlie also mentioned record heat in his notes that day.

Then again in 2012, you could see it was Spring in the photo from Sierra Bishop, as she was coming into Mason. Not a speck of snow to be seen on those roadsides.

April 2018 has proven to be drastically different from these previous years, just check out the photo that The Mackinac Bridge shared from this past Sunday. They were closed to high profile traffic for a number of hours, due to high winds, but passenger cars & vans and empty pickup trucks could cross at reduced speeds.

Today’s video was also made this past Sunday, by photographer, Todd Anderson, who works on Mackinac Island year round and was out there during our weekend storms, enabling him to capture the wave action on the Island breakwall as the Lake splashed and crashed around it. This storm will be one that makes the history from all across Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Wow, the 4/15/18 pic of the Mighty Mac, if you look at it with a quick glance gives the illusion that it has collapsed almost!! Had many a white Knuckled ride across that bridge over the years.

But still a very calming, blood pressure lowering, feeling when you know you're in the Yoop, anytime of year when you when you talk to the folks in the toll booth, and the rest of the trip to the Keweenaw is very enjoyable, and for me.... Pure Michigan!! :=))

Cool stuff...I have a cd with waves that sounds like that...it helps me sleep.
Lots of black ice on the roads this morning on the way to work and I now am beginning to think that this is a test to see who will break first. :-(

...and as a reminder, it's April 17th...do you know where your 1040 is? :-O

Yeah, the 15th made for quite a busy Lake Superior
as well as Michigan and Huron, I'm sure. It was
fun being in Duluth to witness her fury. But it
was also dangerous. I fell on my rear trying to
get a video. But it was well worth it. It's just
too bad that the wind was blowing my camers all
over and I got a lot of people's legs. I hope
nobody got hurt!

We were watching the Bridge cams when it was
partially closed on Sunday and it looked very
intense. Then yesterday they had the normal "All
clear, have a pleasant trip" message up and you could
barely see the Bridge on most of the cams, and the
bridge deck was covered in blowing snow. Not my
opinion of 'all clear'!

Another insight from Ed Abbey--

ZEN: The sound of the ax chopping.

Chopping logic.

IRS is giving us one more day to file due to a system crash yesterday...Yahoo!

And now the Bridge is closed due to falling ice!

Alert: New malware in Facebook today!

I'm not usually one to pass on rumors, but I just received this from a "usually reliable source". FWIW.
(No surprise to me, I've never trusted "Farcebook"!)

"There is a new malware that is really causing problems with Facebook today."
Read about it (click →) here.