Tucked on a street east of Riverside Park in southwest Detroit, on the bank of the Detroit River south of the Ambassador Bridge, you’ll find the small gray building of The J.W. Westcott Company.
If you’re not familiar, the company is known for its official U.S. Postal Service mail boat, a floating post office with its own zip code: 48222.
The world’s first non-military floating postal zip code.
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What a surprise my friends Donna and Bill had when they learned the small dark duck they saw at a nearby inland lake was a Harlequin Duck.
A sea duck typically seen in northwest North America, Greenland, and eastern Canada, the Harlequin Duck winters along the coast of Atlantic Canada and New England as well as the Pacific Northwest coast.
The Harlequin Duck my friends found is a rare bird for southeast Michigan and the first time the bird was sighted in Washtenaw County.
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While ice-covered branches look pretty, last week’s ice storm in southern Michigan resulted in downed power lines, fallen tree limbs, and widespread power outages.
The combination of snow, rain, accumulating ice, and strong winds caused wires to come down across roads, blew transformers, and broke tree branches which landed on streets, houses, and vehicles.
Over 750,000 electric customers in Michigan were initially without power, many customers for more than two days.
At a time when temperatures were below freezing; the wind chill on one day brought the temperature to 10 degrees Farenheit.
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