I'm glad that you fared a bit better. I'm familiar Iron Mountain too - at least from a research/map point of view. So far, I've only barely made it into Yooperland when I lived in Wisconsin (Madison).
Apparently, I had a relative (wife of great-uncle or something like that) who grew up in Calumet.
Snow in Wyoming is irritating. We don't get to keep it - it all just blows away... But you still get the disruption. And get to plow as much as you do in Yooperland. On the plus side, the sculptures the wind makes are much like sand dunes and very pretty.