Attention Michigan, east coasters are sick of your cold-weather-is-no-big-deal jokes.

For evidence, look no further than this column/reaction piece written by Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse and published on Jan. 4.

Titled "Dear Northerners: We get that this weather is no big deal for you. Now please shut up," the piece directly calls out people from Midwest states like Michigan where cold weather is, for lack of a better term, no big deal.

"Just stuff it," Hesse wrote.

"There's a certain smugness Northerners have about cold and their ability to handle it," one person told the Post. "We get it, you're from a tundra. But I just think, why are you here, if it was so great?"

The story goes on to quote several Washingtonians who are sick of the not-so-subtle jabs.

Washington D.C. is a big city filled with people from all 50 states and beyond. That adds up to a lot of different backgrounds, opinions and tolerance to weather. It seems, however, that D.C.'s warm-weather population is sick of being told to deal with it.

Washington D.C., like much of the East Coast, is in the midst of deep freeze which came a day after a massive winter storm blasted the region with heavy snow, strong winds and coastal flooding.

And while it's far from a tropical paradise, cold and snow like this isn't common.

To be fair, Michiganders do seem to enjoy poking fun at the panic in warm-weather states during a cold streak. Don't act like you haven't made comments about southern schools closing due to an inch of snow or shared memes and gifs mocking a snowless snowpocalypse.

But still, what did Michigan do to deserve this; a passage slightly less chill than the wind ripping through the nation's capital.

"The people who are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would have you believe that you are a ninny because you might wish for such a thing (a lap blanket)" Hesse writes.

"The people from Michigan would love to tell you about the time they were frozen to their snowmobile for 70 hours until they were licked free by a domesticated elk -- but frankly, that is what you sign up for when you live in Michigan. If you live in Michigan, you get cheap real estate, nice lake access and below-zero mornings."

I'm sure saying things like that will certainly stop the heckling.