Local weather watchers and broadcast meteorologists were attempting to assess the collective damage of the “Christmas Week Blizzard” Thursday, Friday and Saturday and making comparisons with the infamous Blizzard of 1978. Some broadcasters reported the total snowfall was greater than the storm from 45 years ago. A local resident posted on Facebook this photo showing a whopping 20 inches of the white stuff, but the picture also included a snowdrift, which could have skewed the data somewhat. Nonetheless, it was indeed the storm of a generation, at least the worst in this area since 2011, closing schools, restaurants, businesses, churches and even the Gun Lake Casino. West Michigan area residents were digging out Christmas Day Sunday and there were strong rumors that a warmup would arrive by the end of the week.
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