Cityscape

A Downtown Detroit Snow Day Photo Gallery

January 06, 2014, 11:27 AM

In case you haven't heard yet, we've been getting a lot of snow. It's cold and wet and rainy and it makes getting anywhere a real pain. But, it also makes downtown Detroit pretty darn photogenic.

Some places were quiet.

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Like this spot near where I-75 meets the lodge.

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And this spot, where plows piled a huge mound of snow in the middle of Gratiot and Woodward.

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Man hole covers and steam vents where the only source of pavement around.

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In fact, the quiet felt eerily similar to last year's snowstorm. This side by side pair shows Franklin St in Rivertown during a snow storm in February of 2013. On the right, that same spot on Thursday night.

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But elsewhere, things were kicking. On the same street looking southeast, the Globe Building in February 2013 was uninhabited. Today, we see construction to turn the building into a recreational facility for the state.

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These guys hopped on their four wheelers and blazed around downtown.

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And this pair of men trudged along Jefferson Ave.

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Good old Hazen Pingree wasn't deterred by the cold either. He braved the brunt of the wind and snow in Grand Circus Park.

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In Milliken State Park, this group of Detroiters embraced the endless snowfall by grabbing some sleds and snowboards, crawling up the hill and zooming down over a ramp made from snow and a construction barrel.


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