It could be worse: the blizzard of 1938

While it's certainly a cold winter, the U.P's had worse, as both NASA and the Atlantic noted recently.

 

Excerpt: On winter days like this one, when arctic wind chills are freezing off eyelids in much of the country, the best way of feeling warm might not be coffee or scotch but a healthy sense of historical perspective.

 

With luck, this one photo recently featured by NASA can help with that. It shows the aftermath of a particularly nasty blizzard that hit Upper Michigan in 1938 – the region's so-called "Storm of the Century" – when snow drifts piled up so mightily that they almost covered utility poles.

 

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