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Michigan Agriculture
State Department of Agriculture
Lansing, June 1, 1922


          Pgs 27-28

         "Great Sleet and Ice Storm of February 21-23, 1922
         
         "Probably the worst sleet storm in the history of Michigan
       occurred February 21-23, 1922. The area covered by this storm
       embraces a strip of territory fifty to one hundred miles in
       width. The southern border of this area runs from central Newaygo
       county eastward to a point just north of Bay City. The northern
       limit of the storm is an irregular line starting at Frankfort,
       Michigan, running eastward through Grand Traverse county, south-
       eastward into Roscommon and then northeastward to the Lake Huron
       shore just north of Oscoda. In this entire area an unusually 
       heavy rain occurred on the 21st and 23d with a temperature just
       below the freezing point for most of the period, the rain 
       freezing as it fell and forming a coat of ice of great thickness
       on all exposed objects. The precipitation in several localities
       exceeded four inches. The weight of this coat of ice in many
       places was twenty to thirty times the weight of the twig or
       wire on which it formed. This great weight broke off the limbs
       of trees and carried down telephone, telegraph and electric
       wires and poles so that the whole area presented in appearance,
       after the storm, of a region swept by a terrific wind. The amount
       of damage done is difficult to estimate. Thousands of fruit trees
       were ruined and great areas of forests denuded of brances. One
       telephone company alone in the stricken area suffered a loss of
       $400,000 and it is probable that the total destruction represents
       a money value exceeding $5,000,000. South of this devastated area
       the precipitation was lighter and the weather was warmer so that
       little of the rain froze as it fell. North of the stricken re-
       gion the precipitation was in the form of snow and an unusually
       heavy fall occurred in the extreme northern counties of the
       Lower Peninsula and generally in the Upper Peninsula, in some
       sections exceeding thirty inches in depth. This heavy snow storm
       was accompanied by strong winds and the snow drifted badly. In
       the Upper Peninsula and also the Lower Peninsula over the region
       in which the storm was heavy, railroad service was paralyzed for
       several days.
       
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