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Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup

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of Traverse City for the 04/15/2026.

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And, it's tax day. And amongst other things,

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we just wanna talk more about what's going

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on in the weather.

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It's,

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crazy. We've had, like, six inches of rain

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over the last

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three days.

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And,

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the last I heard, the sheriff's department announced

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that the Beitner Road bridge has failed.

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I don't know what they mean by failed,

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but

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the upshot is Beitner Road is closed from

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Chum's Corners down to,

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oh, what is it? River Road there at

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the roundabout.

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That whole section is closed to through traffic

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and the bridge is out, so that's

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kinda crazy.

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Also, South Airport Road at, Logan's Landing is

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continued to be closed,

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due to flooding over the over the bridges

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there.

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Not not cool. And I guess there's lots

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of other flooding all over the place. The,

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Traverse City area public schools are closed today.

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First time I can ever remember that they

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were closed due to flooding.

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And, actually, the county had requested that they

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close today because of

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all the bridges

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and construction

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and everything else. You know, the interlock and

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construction is in full force and of course

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the three mile road closure

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is in full force so

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that limits a lot of, traffic. So

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just be aware if you're out and about,

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the traffic

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might be a little squirrely,

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and watch out for sinkholes.

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I've seen some pictures online of,

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giant sinkholes here and there.

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And a little further out, the Pellston Airport,

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was closed completely, I think, yesterday.

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I think they might have one runway going

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now,

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but,

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one of their runways were flooded. I don't

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know if it was damaged, but, it was

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definitely had, lots of standing water on it.

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So,

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man,

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yeah, like I said, it's weird, weird weather.

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Well, that's what happens when you have this

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huge

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blizzard and, you know, three feet of snow,

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and then that all melts real quick, and

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then you get a bunch of rain.

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And I guess it's, our turn in the

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barrel here, but I don't ever remember

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this much rain in that short a time

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and it causing so much trouble.

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A

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while back, we had our basement redone,

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you know, Basement Systems of Michigan.

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No. It was Ayers Basement Systems. Anyway, they

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came in and broke the floor up, put

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in drains, put in a double sump pump,

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and all that and

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because we had pretty routine flooding.

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And, anyway, they,

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they cleaned that up, and it was bone

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dry in the basement until yesterday.

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And,

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our sump pumps, both of them have been

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running pretty much constantly

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for

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a couple of days, so

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they couldn't keep up. So we got a

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little bit of water on the floor, nothing

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crazy, but that has been bone dry since

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they,

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they put the basement back together.

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So,

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well, it is is what it is, I

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guess.

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So with that, let's look at the weather.

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Slight chance of showers before 11AM,

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then a chance of showers after 2PM. Patchy

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fog before 11AM.

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Otherwise, mostly cloudy with a high near 58.

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Calm wind becoming north around five miles per

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hour this afternoon. Chance precipitation

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is 30%.

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Tonight, chance of showers and thunderstorms,

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patchy fog. Otherwise,

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mostly cloudy

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with a low around 47.

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Calm winds and, and a chance of precipitation

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of 50%.

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On Thursday. 50%

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chance of showers,

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patchy fog before 1PM.

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Otherwise, mostly cloudy with a high near 57.

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Calm wind around,

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five miles per hour.

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So yeah. And it looks

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like Friday might be sunny, but then

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Saturday, Sunday

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oh, jeez. And Sunday,

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chance of snow showers.

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Oh my gosh.

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Will this weather, never end?

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Anyway, happy tax day. Be careful out there

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if you're driving around, and I will catch

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you tomorrow.