Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 01, 2013
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Caulfield: Are you going to cancel school tomorrow? Mr. Spaetzle: It's only supposed to snow an inch. Caulfield: Yeah, the most dangerous inch of the year. It's as slippery as any other inch. But it arrives after people have spent 8 months forgetting how to drive on it. Frazz: Really? You're thinking of cancelling classes? Mr. Spaetzle: Now that I'll be spending tomorrow morning in my house, hiding under the furniture in the room farthest from the road.
Even in Southern Michigan, people seem to lose their minds during the first snow…..(Don’t worry about the ones north of Cadillac, they’re just pissed at the poor sledding in the summer…)….Copper Harbor gets as much as 200 inches a year, and they bus the kids 40 miles to Calumet, on Highway 41….Only one “Ice” day the year I was there….Of course there’s only that one road to keep clean….