-18 yesterday morning when I left for work at 6am. We have about 14" of the white stuff on the ground. The weather has been colder than normal here in the Detroit suburbs. Folks dealing with frozen water mains, frozen pipes in their houses and frozen septic lines. The Great Lakes are over 80% frozen over. I do not remember that happening in my 57 years. Summer temps here in Michigan are supposed to be cooler than normal this summer due to the massive ice pack. Last summer the most frozen the lakes were was in the 60% range and it took until June for the last of the ice to melt in Lake Superior. Why on earth did my ancestors have to settle here?????