Mick Hartley

2 responses to “Smalltown USA, with logs”

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   Dom

   October 9, 2011

   Beautiful. Makes you wonder about the lives of the people living there.
   I wondered about the steepness of the A-frames, but a comment at Shorpy’s explained that they sometimes get 300 inches of snow out there. I wonder if he meant 30 inches. An A-frame wouldn’t help in 300 inches.

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   Mick H

   October 9, 2011

   I assume that 300 inches is right. 30 inches wouldn’t be very much at all, when they’re talking about the “legendary” snows in that part of the world. Calumet is right at the northern tip of Michigan, on the Keeweenaw peninsula sticking out into Lake Superior. As the Shorpy commenter notes, that part of the world gets hammered with the “lake snow effect”, where the west wind picks up moisture from the lake and dumps it on the first land it hits.

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