Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup
of Traverse City for the 04/17/2026.
I'm Mike, and
I am in Arlington, Texas in a
semi luxurious
hotel room with hotel coffee.
And,
yeah. Sorry for not having an episode yesterday.
I was on an airplane.
Actually, probably sitting on the tarmac at Traverse
City waiting for the weather to get better.
But,
we'll,
worry about that later.
Anyway,
yeah. I hate to keep bringing
bad news, this week, you know, with all
the flooding and stuff, but,
you know, I just have
to bring this up, the Beitner Road Bridge,
you know, between,
well, goes between Keystone Road and, Chum's Corners
there, which is a major artery as I'm
sure you guys have found out with all
the weird traffic patterns,
is likely to be out for six months.
That's just
not good.
And, you know, the South Airport Road, Logan's
Landing
could be a long term thing, but
it looks like maybe if there's not a
lot of damage when the water recedes, they
might be able to get that opened up
sooner
rather than,
taking six months. But,
man,
okay. I'm gonna go into an opinion here.
I I really don't think it was a
great idea taking out Brown Bridge Dam,
Sabin Dam, the one there on Cass, and
I don't know what the status of the
Union Street Dam is, whether they took it
out or what they're doing down there.
But,
yeah, the the the river
they did it to bring the river back
to its natural
course,
its natural
state. And that's all well and good, but
its natural state is to flood.
So
we gotta build our infrastructure
in such a way that that isn't going
to take out
bridges and culverts and
and and other things and buildings. I mean,
you know, all that development along the Boardman
River.
You know, they got the basement of, you
know, one of the buildings. The,
parking garage is flooded. Well,
you guys took out all the bridges.
And then also, you know, as far as
East West corridors across Traverse City, okay, so
we got two major ones,
down and and, of course, that puts more
stress on 8th Street and Front Street and
Parkway and Munson Avenue and all that.
You know, it's just going to cause
havoc when one or two of the main
arteries,
you know, East West in Traverse City or,
you know, up towards Benzie County and Interlochen
and all that.
It's gonna cause havoc. Just,
you know. So they had that proposal for
the Hammond Hartman Bridge,
that would have gone over
the river area and connected 31
to,
Hammond Road. Well, you know, Hammond Road is
a pretty big road. You know? It's that's
a good East West corridor. That would take
a lot of that would've
caused a nonissue because I think most people
would've just taken,
Hammond Road across to Hartman and up 31
rather than going out to Chums Corners,
on Beitner Road. So
I don't know. But anyway,
just was that such a great idea to,
fix the Boardman River so now it's naturally
flooding?
Yeah. You know, it's been a little extraordinary
with
a little. It's been extraordinary
this year with, you know,
a whole bunch of rain on top of
a blizzard a couple weeks ago.
You know, just lots of water.
I'm telling you. It's,
I I think
I think we should have rethunk
the bridge thing.
You know, maybe if they put the Sabin
Dam back up,
in some capacity
and, you know, bring back Sabin Pond.
All those people that lived along it probably
enjoy that.
But, who knows? Probably built condos in there
or something. Yeah. I'm grumpy. I woke up
in Texas this morning, so
there it is.
Let's see. Weather today for Arlington, Texas.
I don't see. It's coming up slow, but
it's gonna be 85
and,
partly cloudy. So, anyway, Traverse City, though.
Let me get there.
This morning, widespread fog before 10AM. Otherwise, sunny
with a high near 73.
So, you guys are gonna get some nicer
warmer weather, but
whatever. Light southwest wind becoming five to 10
miles per hour.
Tonight, a slight chance of rain and thunderstorms.
Just what they need. Just what we need.
And the rain and possibly a thunderstorm after
eleven. Low around forty three. South wind,
10 to 15 miles per hour, as high
as 30.
Change of precipitation,
80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and
a half an inch. That's significant ish on
top of what we've had.
And,
tomorrow, rain showers before noon, scattered
rain and snow showers before noon,
in 5PM.
Snow showers. Oh, jeez. There's that word again.
Snow. Anyway, I'm gonna be down here in
Texas till Sunday.
So,
y'all,
stay dry,
and I will catch you on Monday.