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Miigwech

(3,741 posts) Sat Oct 17, 2015, 10:22 PM Oct 2015

It's snowing !!! [View all]

About an inch. Just took my dog out for a long walk around the farm ... so beautiful. If you love winter and snow the, Upper Peninsula of Michigan is your place.

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It's snowing !!! [View all] Miigwech Oct 2015 OP

Is it hard to write your name with two I's in it? snooper2 Oct 2015 #1

No ... Miigwech Oct 2015 #3

Got a few flurries here today too... inanna Oct 2015 #2

what to do Miigwech Oct 2015 #6

But...but...it is not winter yet!!!! dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #4

In Oct 97 a snow & ice storm knocked out about 1/2 the power in the area Omaha Steve Oct 2015 #9

Here's a solution to lack of fall leaves: dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #14

Still got leaves on most trees Miigwech Oct 2015 #15

Thank you Omaha Steve Oct 2015 #19

You are awesome. nt ladyVet Oct 2015 #44

Meanwhile, here in East TN, halfway between Chatt & Knox, it was 34 degrees at 6:30 AM Sat Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #34

How colorful are the leaves there now? Lars39 Oct 2015 #36

A lot have already dropped, without changing at all, *Some* are starting to change now, along with Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #39

No acorns is not a good sign at all. Lars39 Oct 2015 #40

Peace ... Miigwech Oct 2015 #45

What part of the Upper Peninsula? We're sitting on Madeline Island (WI) Facing MI. cpompilo Oct 2015 #5

Hey yah Miigwech Oct 2015 #7

Whew! Other end of the lake so we're good. We had a very few flakes yesterday but are hoping for a cpompilo Oct 2015 #13

Someone said it snowed in Flint, this afternoon Siwsan Oct 2015 #8

It's been smoking in Boise all week IDemo Oct 2015 #10

Yes - I'm in your climate zone cilla4progress Oct 2015 #29

Twenty miles from Boise IDemo Oct 2015 #31

Lucky you. City Lights Oct 2015 #11

Oh, noooo Habibi Oct 2015 #12

I don't believe Miigwech Oct 2015 #18

El Ni�o......here in the lower part of the State of Minnesota....we won't a kennedy Oct 2015 #16

Hold on Miigwech Oct 2015 #20

We don't have lake effect snow in Minnesota. Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #33

Where dis you read that we were in for a mild winter? Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #32

Thankfully I put 400 gallons of heating fuel into my tank yesterday. longship Oct 2015 #17

I hear yah Miigwech Oct 2015 #22

That sort of thing really does help. murielm99 Oct 2015 #30

The house is super insulated. nt longship Oct 2015 #43

Duh on me, I had not thought low fuel prices =heating oil prices. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #42

Say Yah To Da U.P. Eh! NonMetro Oct 2015 #21

Yah Miigwech Oct 2015 #23

We had a few snow flurries in eastern Ohio this afternoon. Heading doc03 Oct 2015 #24

Spent 5 winters in Portland, ME left-of-center2012 Oct 2015 #25

My brother went to school at Michigan Tech. Have a pasty for me ;-) CentralMass Oct 2015 #26

blech demtenjeep Oct 2015 #27

Lucky you! cilla4progress Oct 2015 #28

I heard that it was snowing 2naSalit Oct 2015 #35

Yuck bigwillq Oct 2015 #37

My dad and step mother are at the tip of the mit etherealtruth Oct 2015 #38

Michigan's U.P is beautiful, Greybnk48 Oct 2015 #41