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Michigan Snow Plow Names, Ranked

DETROIT, MI - FEBRUARY 2: A snow plow clears snow from a road on Belle Isle February 2, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit received over a foot of snow during a storm that has crippled much of the Midwest canceling thousands of flights around the country.
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has 299 working snow plows and all of them have names. Per the Detroit Free Press, the state solicited name suggestions from the public and "sifted through more than 15,400 possible plow monikers, all submitted by the public, to select the 330 winners." The website lists the 299 active snow plows; the other 31 are in reserve.

The names generally fall into a few categories: snow plow-related wordplay, Michigan-related things, and names that appear to be completely random. Here they are, handily ranked for you:

    1. Sleety Pie 
    2. Ramrod the Destroyer  
    3. Clearopathtra
    4. Lead Dog 
    5. Applesauce 
    6. Dr. Plow Good
    7. Love Mi Plow
    8. Tiny 
    9. Kaplowie
    10. Git Snow Git 
    11. Lake Scooperior
    12. Squall Bunyan
    13. Saul T. Streets
    14. Big Poppa 
    15. Plowthagorean Theorem
    16. Cheese Puff 
    17. Sir Plows-A-Lot 
    18. Sir Salts-A-Lot 
    19. Ol' Seven Fingers
    20. Clementine 
    21. Snow Shall Not Pass
    22. Betty Whiteout 
    23. Baby Snowda
    24. Ol' Gus 
    25. Barry Salt-and-Sanders 
    26. Big Kahuna 
    27. Snow Worries
    28. Walter
    29. Blade Runner 
    30. Detroit SnoWings 
    31. Catch My Drift
    32. Blades of Steel 
    33. Bliz Wiz 
    34. Mission Implowsible
    35. Meatball
    36. Blizzard Buster 
    37. Buffy 
    38. Salt Whitman 
    39. Buzz Iceclear
    40. Chill Bill 
    41. Ctrl Salt Delete 
    42. Darth Blader 
    43. Coldfoot 
    44. Have Snow Will Plow
    45. Saltimus Brine
    46. Alice Scooper
    47. Snowprah Winfrey
    48. Truck Norris
    49. Auntie Arctica
    50. Blizzard Wizard
    51. Snowflake
    52. BettyLou Blizzard 
    53. Winslow
    54. Bringin' Pavement Back
    55. Snowy Robinson
    56. Plower Power
    57. Close Shave
    58. Marco Plowo
    59. Seymour Snow
    60. Kid Rock Salt
    61. Sisu
    62. Wolverine Whiteout
    63. Snow Place Like Home
    64. Rocky Salterton
    65. Mitten Muscle
    66. K-zoo
    67. Ice Cube
    68. Plownelope
    69. Gladiator of the Great Lakes
    70. Road Warrior
    71. Herbie
    72. Edgar Allan Snow
    73. Snow Slayer
    74. Winter Express
    75. Blade of Glory
    76. Saltosaurus Rex
    77. Mr. Blade
    78. Snow Hunter
    79. Get Into Scrape
    80. Fast and Flurryous
    81. Lightning McClean
    82. Frosty
    83. Nick Flurry
    84. Will B. Snoday
    85. Saltnado
    86. Mr. Salty Pants
    87. Below Zero Hero
    88. Dewey Defroster
    89. Flake Michigan
    90. Driftcatcher
    91. Scoop Dogg
    92. White Out
    93. Thunder Blade
    94. Moose
    95. Lady Lake Effect
    96. Dolly Plowton
    97. The Scrape Gatsby
    98. Good Roads Earle
    99. S'no Problem
    100. Highway Hero
    101. Yukon Cornelius
    102. Heikki Lunta
    103. Orange Yooper Storm Trooper
    104. Snowfire
    105. Whiteout Wrangler
    106. Newaygo River Roadster
    107. Slush Puppy
    108. Winter Snowdier
    109. Sunshine
    110. Winter Fresh
    111. Snows Buddies Business
    112. Orange Blazer
    113. Snow Warrior
    114. Huron Hero
    115. Thunderhawk
    116. Lola
    117. ThawSome
    118. Sodium Slinger
    119. Mr. Sandman
    120. Plowasaurus Rex
    121. Arctic Fox
    122. Roxy
    123. Pebbles
    124. Glitter Gator
    125. Scooter
    126. Ol' Blue
    127. Salt-N-Peppa
    128. It's Snow Problem
    129. Lil Snow Peep
    130. Dreams of Summer
    131. Large Marge
    132. Salt Life
    133. Subzero
    134. Snowbegone Kenobi
    135. Frosty the Snowplow
    136. Spirit of Saginaw
    137. Old Salty
    138. Let It Snow
    139. Shock and Thaw
    140. Cheerio, Snow!
    141. Sno-no-mo
    142. Grind Line
    143. Fluffy
    144. Salt Salt Baby
    145. Austin Plowers
    146. Frostin Powers
    147. Steve Icerman
    148. Icicle
    149. Slushy
    150. Peppermint
    151. Frostbite
    152. Derek Sleeter
    153. NaviGator
    154. PlowMaster
    155. Da Rumbler
    156. Tiger
    157. Sleetwood Mac
    158. Captain Banks
    159. The Kraken
    160. Machine Plow Kelly
    161. Snow It All
    162. Drift Crusher
    163. SnowJoe
    164. Yooper Scooper
    165. Pavement Liberator
    166. Rupert Slushington IV
    167. Jon Bon Snowi
    168. Buttercup
    169. Mr. Snow Miser
    170. Coyote
    171. Freezy
    172. Whitefish Plowder
    173. Happy
    174. UP Winter Force
    175. Snowball
    176. Spirit of Michigan
    177. Snow Digitty
    178. Melton John
    179. Clearing Present Danger
    180. Biboon Ogichidaa
    181. Plowzilla
    182. The Great and Plowerful Oz
    183. Marshmallow
    184. Weird Plow Yankovic
    185. Almost Summer
    186. Nieve
    187. The Abominable Snowplow
    188. Dottie
    189. Melty the Snowplow
    190. Señor Flurry
    191. I'd Rather Be at the Beach
    192. Laker Scraper
    193. Plower Ranger
    194. Sparkles
    195. Still Shorts Weather
    196. Lake Effect Collect
    197. Ice to Meet You
    198. Herbert H. Plow
    199. Scooper McGavin
    200. Frankenmuth Chicken
    201. Blizzard T Snowplow
    202. Frost Responder
    203. Frostbitten Mitten
    204. Hercules
    205. Peppy Le Plow
    206. Salty Dogg
    207. Borealis
    208. Trail Blazer
    209. Chilly Dog
    210. Lumi
    211. Hamilton
    212. Remy
    213. Little Mack
    214. Sunny
    215. Licensed to Chill
    216. Polar Patroller
    217. Lumber Jack
    218. Polar Express
    219. Gordie Plow
    220. Plow Avenger
    221. Ice Princess
    222. Baby It's Cold Outside
    223. Plowderpuff
    224. Snowmaggedon
    225. Mighty Mac
    226. Northstar
    227. Aaron Brr, Sir
    228. I Think I Can
    229. Pillsbury Plowboy
    230. Ice Buster
    231. Drift Master
    232. Hipplowpotomus
    233. Snow Mater
    234. Bluster Buster
    235. Han Snow-Lo
    236. Droppin' Salt Like It's Hot
    237. Kalamazoo Canoe
    238. Ice Sleigher
    239. Snowboni
    240. Snow Wolf
    241. Blizzard Boss
    242. Storm Slayer
    243. Mr. Plow
    244. Rolling Thunder
    245. Snow Shifter
    246. Hannah's Hero
    247. Rusty McSaltmeister
    248. Burley Bear
    249. Moxie
    250. Drift Buster
    251. Big Mac
    252. Snomac
    253. Chill Out
    254. The Big LePlowski
    255. Orange Slush
    256. Ice Ice Baby
    257. Sarnia Scooper
    258. Blue Water Express
    259. Salty Sven
    260. Hulk
    261. Pegasus
    262. Eagle Eye
    263. Salty Attitude
    264. Road Runner
    265. Beach Buggy
    266. Snowbacca
    267. Orange Crush
    268. Bumble
    269. Big Bertha
    270. Sparky McChatter
    271. The Beast
    272. Mighty Yooper
    273. Ebenezer Scoop
    274. Superior Snowbuster
    275. King of Winter
    276. Stormbreaker
    277. Snowdown Please, I'm Plowing
    278. Plowdy Duty
    279. Snow Rapids
    280. Move It Move It
    281. Chippy
    282. Snow Can Do
    283. Mishigami
    284. Beast
    285. Snowcrusher
    286. Plowriffic
    287. Plowabunga
    288. Snowba Fett
    289. Optimus Plow
    290. Snobank Maker
    291. Sparky
    292. Patience
    293. Frosted Flake
    294. Maximus
    295. Snow Captain
    296. Winter Commander
    297. Ice Force One
    298. Snow Force 1
    299. Getting hit by a snow plow
    300. Yeti
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