then freezing rain, then a few snowflakes then back to freezing rain and sleet. We have about 14 more hours to go and they said the freezing rain could be at its worst tonight. We still have power, yay! The worrying thing about this ice is the wind. It's blowing steady at about 15-20 mph with gusts over 40. Not good for frozen trees and power lines. There are also areas of town that are flooded with road and street closures. There were hardly any weird winter storms like this in the past. They used to be as rare as hen's teeth, but we're getting multiple storms like this per year. Then it's going to rain later in the week. In January. In Michigan.

Lansing. Got 36 inches in 24 hours with an inch of ice on top.

I didn't even realize that waves of such heights could form in the great lakes. If anyone has pics, please post and stay safe!

Record lake level and big storms. Houses getting washed away on the East shore.

The local retention ponds are wavy, but not with whitecaps.

Of a merchant marine ship on one of the great lakes his dad worked for in the late 20’s had a bad storm and disappeared into nowhere and was never seen again. He normally worked every day but decided to take his first day off and that happened.

a brutal storm in 1975, to be memorialized in the great song by Gordon Lightfoot.

has almost been washed away. Emergency crews are assisting the family to try and get as much as they can out of the structure before it’s totally destroyed.....yikes!