NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Waylon Wong.
And here with me is Ellie Katz from Interlochen Public Radio in Michigan.
Hello, Ellie.
Hi, Waylon.
Good to be here.
Great to have you.
And Ellie, you are in northern Michigan,
which I remember had a really bad ice storm earlier this spring.
Yeah, it was like the worst ice storm we've had since 1922.
There were power lines coming down, trees coming down.
It was pretty bad.
I remember just the scale of it was wild.
Over a million acres of forest land were damaged.
The pictures look like the tops of all the trees just got sheared off.
They look like matchsticks.
It's pretty crazy.
And that is in a really heavily forested part of the state.
And some people there rely on those trees for their livelihood.
I went to talk with someone like that.