Northern Michigan inundated by snowstorm

Much of Leelanau County is still without electricity following Friday night’s massive late-winter snowstorm that snapped trees and left roads impassible all over northern Michigan. Empire turned its Township Hall into a shelter, Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor fired up its generator and became the only place in town to get a hot meal this weekend. Hearty locals are digging themselves out, and waiting patiently for their light switches, heaters and Internet modems to turn back on. Expect a story later this week about how Leelanau County residents fared during this 2012 “Snowpocalypse” — one of the worst storms to hit the region in decades.