22 struggles people in Michigan deal with every winter

Relentless snow, freezing temperatures, and vehicles in ditches all along the highways — Michigan winters are something people from other states just can't understand until they've survived one. The struggle is real.

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 Scraping your windshield with anything you can find  
Anything can become an ice scraper if you try hard enough. CD, credit card, spatula — whatever! 
Photo via  Flickr, user Robeeena
Scraping your windshield with anything you can find
Anything can become an ice scraper if you try hard enough. CD, credit card, spatula — whatever!
Photo via Flickr, user Robeeena
 Snow covering your seat when you open the car door    
You have to open door to get the scraper, but if you open your door snow falls all over your seat — see the problem? It's an unavoidable issue.
Photo via  Instagram, user eric.deschamps.photographie
Snow covering your seat when you open the car door
You have to open door to get the scraper, but if you open your door snow falls all over your seat — see the problem? It's an unavoidable issue.
Photo via Instagram, user eric.deschamps.photographie
 Parking spaces become snow banks  
The plow trucks have to pile the snow somewhere, giving us less parking spaces but more mounds of snow. If we need to climb the highest mountain of snow to park, then so be it. 
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Parking spaces become snow banks
The plow trucks have to pile the snow somewhere, giving us less parking spaces but more mounds of snow. If we need to climb the highest mountain of snow to park, then so be it.
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 Having to shovel your walk after you shovel your walk  
“Will the snow ever end?” you ask yourself as you push your old plastic shovel past your mailbox for the fourth time that day. 
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Having to shovel your walk after you shovel your walk
“Will the snow ever end?” you ask yourself as you push your old plastic shovel past your mailbox for the fourth time that day.
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 Salt stains on everything you own  
Don't get us wrong, we're grateful for the salt on the roads and sidewalks. So, thanks to all you conscientious Michiganders who don't want us cracking our heads on your property. But salt stains quickly become an unwanted winter accessory when we can't even take a day to wash our "big coat" thanks to constant subzero temperatures.  
Photo via  Rodale’s Organic Life
 That random 50 degree day  
Sun’s out, guns out. We’re not afraid to wear shorts and barbecue outside on the only warm day of the month. We gotta get that Vitamin D while we can! Plus, we'll probably get another three inches of snow within the week . 
Photo via bbqbarbecues.co.uk
That random 50 degree day
Sun’s out, guns out. We’re not afraid to wear shorts and barbecue outside on the only warm day of the month. We gotta get that Vitamin D while we can! Plus, we'll probably get another three inches of snow within the week .
Photo via bbqbarbecues.co.uk
 Letting your cute shoes go into hibernation  
Having to sacrifice fashion for function is the hardest decision of the season. Michigan winters aren’t as picturesque as Instagram makes them seem. 
Photo via  Instagram, user rocheteausandra
Letting your cute shoes go into hibernation
Having to sacrifice fashion for function is the hardest decision of the season. Michigan winters aren’t as picturesque as Instagram makes them seem.
Photo via Instagram, user rocheteausandra
 Not knowing whether that's an innocent pile of snow or a curb that'll ruin your tire  
Everything’s covered in snow. There’s a lump here, a pile there, who knows what’s what. 
Photo via  SimcoeReformer.ca
Not knowing whether that's an innocent pile of snow or a curb that'll ruin your tire
Everything’s covered in snow. There’s a lump here, a pile there, who knows what’s what.
Photo via SimcoeReformer.ca
 Those a-holes who don't remove the snow from their car roofs 
You're pretty much in a white-out if you're stuck behind them on the freeway. It’s like your own personal snowstorm. 
Photo via  NBC
Those a-holes who don't remove the snow from their car roofs
You're pretty much in a white-out if you're stuck behind them on the freeway. It’s like your own personal snowstorm.
Photo via NBC
 Aggressive pickup truck drivers  
Look buddy, we get it, you have a big car, but some of us are just trying to get from point A to point B without wiping out. Cut us some slack!  
Photo via  The Odyssey
Aggressive pickup truck drivers
Look buddy, we get it, you have a big car, but some of us are just trying to get from point A to point B without wiping out. Cut us some slack!
Photo via The Odyssey