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Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup

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of Traverse City for

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Saint Patrick's Day twenty twenty six.

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I'm Mike. I have my coffee. I was

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able to

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shovel my way into the studio this morning.

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Actually, I made it in yesterday as well,

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but didn't record an episode.

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It is what it is, but

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it's

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definitely

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a snowy one out there.

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No snow currently where I'm sitting, but

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we've certainly had our fill of

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snow.

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Normally,

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when they're hyping these

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big storms,

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you know, it's always, snowmageddon,

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snowmageddon. Oh my gosh. You know, run for

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your lives and, nothing really happens or, you

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know, it's a big nothing burger.

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So I kind of thought that might be

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what was gonna go on,

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as I think I said on Friday.

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Kinda poo pooed the idea that it was

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gonna be bad, but,

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I was wrong.

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It's crazy,

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or it was crazy.

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My neighbor's carport collapsed.

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We have a storage

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tent,

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structure in our backyard, kind of a greenhouse

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sort of thing, and

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and, the roof on that caved a little

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bit,

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although it's it's probably salvageable

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if, it doesn't continue to collapse.

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But after

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many, many years, I had to actually call

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in a plow guy to get my driveway

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open

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and, you know, because the tractor and the

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snow blowers just wouldn't touch it.

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So

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had a had a plow guy come in

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and open the driveway up, and

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now there's probably eight or 10 new inches

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of snow in there, but, that I can

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handle with the blower and the tractor. No

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big deal.

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Anyway, enough about me.

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Let's see. Yesterday, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff

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For Emergency Management

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put out an alert. I'm sure if you're

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actually in the area here,

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you probably got that alert on your phone,

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maybe even a phone call.

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They definitely,

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you know, came out with this shelter in

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place thing.

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It was,

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in

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insane. I saw it.

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I mean, yeah. It's it's pretty crazy.

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But,

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yeah. Anyway so, yeah, the the sheriff definitely

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said stay off the roads. It's life threatening.

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Blah blah blah blah. I was gonna try

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to find where that notice was, and I

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was gonna read it to you. So give

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me just a second to do that.

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Yeah.

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Let's see. It says Grand Traverse County, life

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threatening winter storm. Three feet of snow.

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Well, I don't know about three feet, but

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it might have been close in spots.

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But, anyway, three feet of snow and 40

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mile per hour winds causing impassable roads. Travel

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strongly

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discouraged.

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If stranded, responders may be delayed. Stay off

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the roads and shelter in place tonight. That

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was, issued,

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yesterday.

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I don't

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know. Afternoon, evening.

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And, you know, probably a good idea that

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everybody

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should have stayed

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put. I noticed the traffic out in front

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of my house has been pretty light

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other than the occasional snowplow filling in the

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end of my driveway.

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So anyway, if you're out there moving snow

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today,

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be careful, take your time,

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don't overdo it.

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People tend to

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overdo things

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during these kind of storms and,

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and and the aftermath.

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This will melt.

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At one point, I thought I saw

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60 degrees in the forecast, but that has

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changed.

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So let me read that forecast.

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Today's snow showers likely mainly before 2PM. Patchy

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blowing snow up before 2PM. Mostly cloudy with

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a high near 20. Northwest wind at 10

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to 15 miles per hour.

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Chance of snow, 70%.

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Total daytime accumulation around an inch possible on

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top of what we got, plus drifting.

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Tonight, 30% chance of snow showers mainly after

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2AM.

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Mostly cloudy with low around thirteen.

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Southwest wind around five miles per hour becoming

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south after midnight.

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And, usually when it turns to the south

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or coming from the south, it's gonna be

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warmer air. So we'll see.

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Tomorrow

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looks like high near 35.

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So, yep, it's gonna

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start warming up, but 40 chance of snow

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showers.

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And if I look the extended forecast,

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the snow doesn't stop till Thursday night.

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And oops. Wait a minute. Nope. Friday morning,

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there looks like there's a, a bit of

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snow as well, but the high is gonna

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be 40. So,

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yeah, it'll melt.

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Like I said, I'm

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I'm minimally opening up the driveways just to

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make sure, you know, we can get out

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and in and all that and the walkways

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and whatnot, but I am not gonna do

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a full blown clear everything

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because it's all gonna melt.

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And I've got about a eight foot pile

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of snow in my front yard that's probably

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gonna take till June to melt, but had

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to call a plow guy.

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Catch me tomorrow.