By Mary Drew at Pasty Central (Mdrew) on Monday, March 23, 2026 - 05:42 am:
Shawn Malone over at Lake Superior Photo was right in the middle of the blizzard weather the U.P. experienced last weekend, from Saturday, March 14th thru Monday, the 16th. Cleanup took another couple days after that and Shawn documented it around her place on M-28, east of Marquette with photos and a video.
Starting with the first photo taken Tuesday afternoon, March 17th, that’s M-28 at the end of her driveway. She said she had never seen it that bad on the highway before and they had watched someone bottom out on this drift and get stuck. Shawn also said it was nice not to have all the traffic they normally have, while they were out there clearing the driveway.
The next three pictures were the clearing out in their yard, which took two days to get it to the point we’re seeing. The pictures really don’t convey the scale of all the snow they got. Shawn said she thinks it was around 3 feet, but with the drifting, anywhere from 6 to 15 feet. Unbelievable!
The fifth photo shows the higher ice shelf peaks on Lake Superior’s shoreline, that built up with the blizzard. Shawn was hoping the storm would knock all the ice shelves down, but that didn’t happen and it’s a sad sight for rockhounders now. The person in the shot is standing on the beach, not the ice shelf. This photo was snapped on the 1st day of Spring, March 20th.
We’re in Escanaba for the bottom photo, snapped by Mike MacIntosh, when his sister Linda came to town on Friday, March 20th. Mike and Linda were on Ludington Street heading out for breakfast and the snow removal crew was still cleaning up the massive snow amounts they received, too.
In the video Shawn recorded on Tuesday, March 17th around 6 p.m., that’s Highway M-28 somewhere under all that snow. She said this is how it looked where the plowing stopped by the Alger County line, about 10 miles east of Marquette. So for those that were wondering why M-28 was still closed on Tuesday, there’s the reason. It took lots of time and manhours to get through all that snow.
By Kathyrn Laughlin (Kathyl) on Monday, March 23, 2026 - 07:35 am:
Hi
I hope you guys get the snow cleared soon. It's hard to
imagine a highway not being open.
The 5th photo of the ice shelf reminds me of my winter
trips to South Haven on Lake Michigan. All that ice
does act as a barrier to erosion by the waves.
By Donna (Donna) on Monday, March 23, 2026 - 10:59 am:
WOW...we really got skipped!
Most of my relatives live in Escanaba. (Mike and
Linda are my siblings)....I got a video from my
Nephew who was snowblowing. Sometimes you saw him,
sometimes you didn't...Mike's driveway drifts were
higher than his snowblower! My niece and her hubby
rode to downtown Escanaba on snowmobiles. No cars
could do it! Just unreal!
By Deb S. (Usedtobeayooper) on Monday, March 23, 2026 - 12:12 pm:
That is amazing! Thank God we missed this one.
Great photos. M-28 is unbelievable.
