COTC - 14 Apr 2026 - Flood Warning

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Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup

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of Traverse City for the 04/14/2026.

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I am Mike,

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and

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we are under a flood warning.

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That,

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it's a little higher than a flood watch

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or a flash flood warning.

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It's a whole

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spiel about it over on the National Weather

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Service, which is linked here. Usually, you know,

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you go don't go to podcasting

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for a,

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you know, real time update or anything, but,

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I think it's applicable. The warning goes through

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tomorrow, 2PM,

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mainly around the Boardman And Manistee Rivers,

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but,

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you know, could be anywhere.

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There's a story in the ticker

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that

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I pulled up this morning, and, you know,

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it says heavy rains this week are having

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major impacts across Northern Michigan with more rain

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still in the forecast

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and a flood watch in effect through Wednesday.

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Now it's a flood warning.

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So their

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story's a little behind the times.

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The ticker spoke with multiple officials who

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were on the ground Monday addressing everything from

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retention wall failure,

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fish pass site downtown,

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to flooded roads and trails, to potential dam

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breaches in outlying areas.

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And, you know, the one that's been in

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the news

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the most is, of course, the Sheboygan

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Dam, but,

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Tippy Dam's another one that, was getting a

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little sketchy.

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They are,

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releasing

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some inch you know, some,

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water out of the dams to relieve pressure,

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but, that causes a little down, you know,

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down the,

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downriver

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issues.

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Yeah. Luckily,

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where I'm at, yeah, we're susceptible

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to a little flooding

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on this

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stretch of road, but, not

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so much right here.

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You know, my sump pump has been cranking

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almost continuously.

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Luckily, I have,

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two sump pumps

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in there, and the other one hasn't, hasn't

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ran in a while. But,

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you know, when both start running a lot,

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yeah, we're we're getting a lot of, a

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lot of rain. We had, like, I don't

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know. I think it was a

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inch and three quarters overnight or in the

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last twenty four hours, and, you know, that's

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just too much for around here. I know

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I've been focusing on weather a lot here,

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but,

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you know, it,

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it does impact us.

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And and good news, though, the eight foot

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pile of snow that was in my front

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yard is now not there, so

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that's a positive. Yeah. You can look on

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the bright side.

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That and and the coffee is

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is warm and tasty,

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as usual.

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So but,

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yeah. If you're

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driving around, just make sure that, a, the

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pavement is still there, and

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b, that, if you drive across

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flowing water,

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be extremely careful or don't do it,

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because water is a powerful thing.

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You go check out the

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link to the, weather services warning, and, the

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ticker article has some pictures of

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looks like a bridge is out.

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It doesn't say where,

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but,

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looks like one one of the bridges

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has

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come apart at one end or the other,

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and a lot of lot of pavement is

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is going away.

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There's another picture of a road.

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I don't know. It looks like somewhere around

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Logan's Landing, maybe part of the Tart Trail

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that's underwater.

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Yeah. That's where it is.

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So, like I said, they they are not

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captioning these pictures, but, yeah. Go check it

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out. Yeah. Logan's Landing area definitely looks like

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it's

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it's getting a little,

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a little rain.

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A lot of rain.

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So

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with that, I guess we'll

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look at the official forecast

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for today.

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Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, partly sunny with

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a high near 65. West wind around five

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miles per hour. And then tonight, more rain.

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Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2AM, then isolated

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showers. Mostly cloudy. A little low around 48.

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Calm wind. Chance precipitation

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is only 40%.

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I would say it was a 100%, but

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that's just me looking at the, aviation weather.

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So,

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anyway and tomorrow, chance of showers and thunderstorms

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also possible after 2PM. Mostly cloudy with a

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high near 63.

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Calm wind becoming southwest around five miles per

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hour in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is

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50%.

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And, yeah. It looks like, the rest of

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the week until,

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Friday.

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Well, even Friday.

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Friday night, anyway.

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But, yeah. Every day, there's a chance of

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precipitation.

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So

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stay dry

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and be careful when you're out traveling around.

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You you might find yourself

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in in water. And hopefully, those dams hold

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together. That's, that's always ugly when one of

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those lets loose. I remember the one down

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by

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Coleman and

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Sanford area there along

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US 10

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collapsed a few years ago and, definitely,

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well,

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okay. Here's here's a a a total

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first world problem, but,

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it took out a fair number of Pontiac

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Fieros.

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There's a there was a dealership down there

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or a shop or whatever that specialized in

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Fieros. I think it was in, Sanford.

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I'm not sure. Either Coleman or Sanford.

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And, that that rose the global price of,

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of vintage

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Pontiac Fierros

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because a whole bunch of them got flooded.

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Of course, this guy probably restored them, so

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who knows? But,

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anyway,

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just a little side note there. Everybody have

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a good day. Stay dry. Catch you tomorrow.