Michigan might not be a state most known for the extreme weather events that sweep through its territory, but over its long history it has had its fair share of wind damage – here are a few of the major storms recorded:
- November 7-10, 1913 – the storm known as the Big Blow raged for three days on end, with winds up to 90 mph fast, waves up to 35 feet high and heavy snow. The storm left behind hundreds of casualties, dozens of ships wrecked or sunk and many households and businesses devastated;
- June 8, 1953 – the Flint-Beecher tornado is ranked among the top 10 most devastating storms in the history of the nation. Its path stretched for 27 miles, it took 116 lives, it injured more than 840 people and it caused around 19 million dollars in damages (worth around 170 million today);
- March 8, 2017 – the event was one of the rare pure windstorms ever recorded. It came with gusts that sped at around 68 mph, causing the largest outage linked to a weather event in the history of the US. The storm uprooted large trees, damaged buildings, uplifted trailers and it affected not only Michigan, but a much larger area of thousands of miles.
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