Michigan- about 100 miles north of the "D". I'm what locals would call a "thumb girl"
Lifelong resident and when I lived a little further north we had horrendous lake effect snow. One time we had 6 inches of snow then the winds picked up dumped another foot of snow. I lived on a gravel road with no outlet road (long forgotten by the county road commission people and plows) and we lived at the top of a hill... well the snow drifts were literally six feet deep and we were snowed in for three days. Even the big orange county truck with its plow got stuck. They had to call a wrecker in to haul it out.
Only way we could get out was by snowmobile. Yeah... don't miss those days too much!
Michigan? Wow. We were in Windsor in August for a wedding. A few months too late to meet up!