This damage is a reminder of the "gales of November" that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Mackinac Island Ferry
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| Mackinac Straits Photography Gallery posted Sara Raine It was a decommissioned boat used for advertising. The engines and everything have been stripped out. |
Mackinac Island
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| WJML posted Mackinac Island Road COLLAPSED. A portion of M-185 on the northern tip of Mackinac Island crumbled after rain and high winds this week. (Photo: Jason St. Onge, Special to the Free Press) via Detroit Free Press [According to some comments, the initial collapse happened in Oct. and then the Nov. storm caused more damage. Mackinac Island is famous for not allowing cars on the island. But I see from the comments that this road was intended for horse carriages, bicycles, golf carts, emergency vehicles and (during the off season) road repair vehicles.] Colleen Peterson James Bruns People have lost the width of a football field in the last year in Michigan. The high water has been unreal. Phillip Callighan Was this the same road that VP Pence & his convoy of vehicles used for a recent visit? Ron Fulger No, only interior island roads by airport. Wayne Frazier They couldn't afford the DEQ expert 2 come out and give them the recommendations for what they needed to do to shore up a silt fence inorder to get the proper paperwork and permits on the needed environmental survey and wildlife impact study required to move forward with a engineering plan for a proposed seawall? I mean all they had to do was jump through a couple of more hoops after that... And set aside 500 acres of land for some <expletive> snail that may have shown its head around there once or twice... Come on guys this was easy to avoid. Colleen Peterson It’s been all along Lake Michigan, Lake Superior and Huron! People are having houses fall into the Lakes. The water is so high and the Lakes have had 10’ to 25’ waves this year. |
Mackinac Bridge
Winds forced bridge authorities to require big vehicles — including campers, cars hauling boats, bikes and luggage, and tractor-trailers — to require an escort.I can't figure out how escort vehicles are going to help. Unless they force the "convey" to drive even slower than 20mph. I accessed the above link on Nov 30, 2019 and got the following alert: "Examples of vehicles which are especially vulnerable to high winds are pickup trucks with campers, motor homes, vehicles pulling trailers and enclosed semi-truck trailers. Motorists are instructed to reduce their speed to a maximum of 20 miles per hour, turn on their four way flashers, and utilize the outside lane. Motorists are asked to exercise appropriate caution."
Motorists headed to and from the Upper Peninsula over the bridge in cars, pickups and vans are required to reduce speed to 20 miles per hour and be prepared to stop, said an alert from the Mackinac Bridge Authority.
[Detroit Free Press]
Ludington, MI
Two of eleven photos of concrete covered with sand and water posted by Tom Sanders.
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| a [I choose this photo because it shows the natural dunes that got removed because, in spite of warnings from the community that it would be destroyed, the city honchos decided to build a playground and parking lot by the lake. If you look at the damage done in Tom's other photos, as predicted by the community, the taxpayer's money was effectively thrown into the lake. Another demonstration that "community input" meetings are worthless because the input is ignored. According to the comments, the community was also vocal in the media as to the viability of this park.] |
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| b [From the comments, I believe this photo was taken here looking East.] Scott Kelsey posted David Skridulis Are the benches gone? Scott Kelsey David Skridulis looks like it. |
This town also suffers river flooding.
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