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Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup

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of Traverse City for the 04/17/2026.

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I'm Mike, and

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I am in Arlington, Texas in a

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semi luxurious

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hotel room with hotel coffee.

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And,

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yeah. Sorry for not having an episode yesterday.

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I was on an airplane.

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Actually, probably sitting on the tarmac at Traverse

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City waiting for the weather to get better.

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But,

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we'll,

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we'll,

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worry about that later.

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Anyway,

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yeah. I hate to keep bringing

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bad news, this week, you know, with all

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the flooding and stuff, but,

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you know, I just have

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to bring this up, the Beitner Road Bridge,

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you know, between,

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well, goes between Keystone Road and, Chum's Corners

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there, which is a major artery as I'm

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sure you guys have found out with all

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the weird traffic patterns,

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is likely to be out for six months.

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That's just

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not good.

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And, you know, the South Airport Road, Logan's

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Landing

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could be a long term thing, but

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it looks like maybe if there's not a

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lot of damage when the water recedes, they

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might be able to get that opened up

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sooner

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rather than,

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taking six months. But,

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man,

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okay. I'm gonna go into an opinion here.

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I I really don't think it was a

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great idea taking out Brown Bridge Dam,

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Sabin Dam, the one there on Cass, and

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I don't know what the status of the

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Union Street Dam is, whether they took it

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out or what they're doing down there.

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But,

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yeah, the the the river

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they did it to bring the river back

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to its natural

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course,

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its natural

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state. And that's all well and good, but

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its natural state is to flood.

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So

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we gotta build our infrastructure

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in such a way that that isn't going

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to take out

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bridges and culverts and

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and and other things and buildings. I mean,

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you know, all that development along the Boardman

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River.

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You know, they got the basement of, you

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know, one of the buildings. The,

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parking garage is flooded. Well,

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you guys took out all the bridges.

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And then also, you know, as far as

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East West corridors across Traverse City, okay, so

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we got two major ones,

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down and and, of course, that puts more

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stress on 8th Street and Front Street and

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Parkway and Munson Avenue and all that.

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You know, it's just going to cause

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havoc when one or two of the main

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arteries,

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you know, East West in Traverse City or,

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you know, up towards Benzie County and Interlochen

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and all that.

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It's gonna cause havoc. Just,

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you know. So they had that proposal for

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the Hammond Hartman Bridge,

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that would have gone over

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the river area and connected 31

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to,

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to,

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Hammond Road. Well, you know, Hammond Road is

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a pretty big road. You know? It's that's

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a good East West corridor. That would take

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a lot of that would've

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caused a nonissue because I think most people

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would've just taken,

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Hammond Road across to Hartman and up 31

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rather than going out to Chums Corners,

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on Beitner Road. So

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I don't know. But anyway,

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just was that such a great idea to,

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fix the Boardman River so now it's naturally

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flooding?

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Yeah. You know, it's been a little extraordinary

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with

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a little. It's been extraordinary

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this year with, you know,

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a whole bunch of rain on top of

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a blizzard a couple weeks ago.

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You know, just lots of water.

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I'm telling you. It's,

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I I think

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I think we should have rethunk

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the bridge thing.

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You know, maybe if they put the Sabin

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Dam back up,

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in some capacity

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and, you know, bring back Sabin Pond.

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All those people that lived along it probably

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enjoy that.

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But, who knows? Probably built condos in there

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or something. Yeah. I'm grumpy. I woke up

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in Texas this morning, so

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there it is.

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Let's see. Weather today for Arlington, Texas.

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I don't see. It's coming up slow, but

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it's gonna be 85

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and,

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partly cloudy. So, anyway, Traverse City, though.

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Let me get there.

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This morning, widespread fog before 10AM. Otherwise, sunny

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with a high near 73.

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So, you guys are gonna get some nicer

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warmer weather, but

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whatever. Light southwest wind becoming five to 10

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miles per hour.

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Tonight, a slight chance of rain and thunderstorms.

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Just what they need. Just what we need.

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And the rain and possibly a thunderstorm after

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eleven. Low around forty three. South wind,

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10 to 15 miles per hour, as high

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as 30.

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Change of precipitation,

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80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and

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a half an inch. That's significant ish on

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top of what we've had.

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And,

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tomorrow, rain showers before noon, scattered

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rain and snow showers before noon,

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in 5PM.

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Snow showers. Oh, jeez. There's that word again.

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Snow. Anyway, I'm gonna be down here in

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Texas till Sunday.

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So,

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y'all,

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stay dry,

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and I will catch you on Monday.