Riverside Park in Ypsilanti no longer lives up to its name. When I drove by this morning it looked like it was underwater.
it's like being there
Riverside Park in Ypsilanti no longer lives up to its name. When I drove by this morning it looked like it was underwater.
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On one corner, fire and brimstone, on another, Girl Scout cookies. [photo]
In a report on March auto sales, the Detroit Free Press quotes Doug Fox, owner of Ann Arbor Automotive, who says that for the first 19 days of the month, sales have increased by about 30% at his Nissan, Acura, Hyundai, Kia and Mitsubishi franchises: “I’m afraid to extrapolate it even to the end of the month. If it does, we would be up dramatically over last March.” [Source]
A post on the blog “Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?” takes issue with the book “Confessions of a Substitute Teacher: Don’t Work for PESG or Teach in Ypsilanti Michigan.” The blog’s author writes: “I love working for the Ypsilanti Public School District and although we have challenges, I want to stay and help, not just complain from a distance. Do all of us a favor, stop subbing … and get out of Ypsilanti.” [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
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Here’s the real time Huron River flood stage graph at Ann Arbor -
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At 7:45am the river was at 15.92 feet (Flood stage is 16 feet). The level indicator says
17.0 WATER MAY BEGIN TO BACKUP DRAIN ON WALL ST AT CANAL ST AND ALSO IN PARKING LOT OF APARTMENTS AT THAT INTERSECTION. PARTS OF CANAL ST FLOODS. WATER BEGINS TO FLOOD ISLAND DRIVE.
16.0 RIVERSIDE PARK DIRT PARKING LOT FLOODS. WATER MAY BEGIN TO BACKUP STREET DRAINS ON ISLAND DRIVE BY ISLAND PARK.
15.0 FLOODING BEGINS AT ISLAND PARK, RIVERSIDE PARK AND FULLER RECREATION AREA.
Upstream at Ore Lake in Hamburg it’s even worse
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at 7.11 feet, predicted to go to 7.6 feet:
8.0 MANY HOMES ARE SURROUND AND INUNDATED WITH FLOOD WATER ALONG THE RIVER AND ORE LAKE.
7.0 WATER BEGINS TO REACH FOUNDATIONS AND CRAWL SPACES OF MANY HOMES ALONG THE RIVER AND ORE LAKE.
6.5 ***FLOOD STAGE*** WATER BEGINS TO FLOOD YARDS OF HOMES ALONG THE HURON RIVER AND ORE LAKE. MANY BOAT DOCKS BEGIN TO BECOME SUBMERGED BETWEEN 6.5 AND 7 FT.
6.0 BANKFULL.
Glad I live on high ground near the water tower!