- Dates
- 2012-12-20 – 2012-12-23
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- weatherdisasterinfrastructureenergytransportation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 2013 Beaver Beacon reports that a December 20, 2012 storm covered Beaver Island trees and power lines in freezing rain and heavy snow, left about six inches on the ground, and caused widespread power-line damage requiring Great Lakes Energy crews to work for three days.
Evidence limits
This record preserves the issue’s local weather account and does not add an official storm total or outage log.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 2013, "Storm of the Century."Describes the December 20 storm's freezing rain and heavy snow, an average six inches on the ground, downed trees and power lines, snowmobile travel, and Great Lakes Energy repairs over three days. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held January issue scan confirms the weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-01_Beaver-Beacon
- Residents described impassable interior roads, widespread fallen trees, roughly 46 hours without power in one area, and restoration work by Great Lakes Energy, the county road crew, and local contractors. These are contemporaneous resident accounts that enrich the newspaper report but are not an outage log or official damage assessment.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005896
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Freezing rain and heavy snow bring Beaver Island a December 2012 ice storm”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-storm-of-century-december-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2013, "Storm of the Century." (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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