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Originally Posted by deja vu
There is extensive flooding throughout Michigan due to heavy rainfall and excessive snow melt. The Kalamazoo River is officially the highest it has ever been as of this morning and still rising, causing all sorts of havoc on roadways and damage to homes and businesses. Lots of stalled vehicles, crashes, and emergency rescues as motorists don't know how to handle the rising water levels. The Morrow Dam was opened today to try and relieve some of the swelling and flooding on the city's east side. But this has exacerbated flooding further downriver in Kalamazoo Township. Many more photos on MLive and other local sources -
Map of current road closures and flood plain area (as of Friday, 2/23 evening) -
Source: Google Maps
Kalamazoo's East Side on Thursday - Aerial Drone View -
Source: NVHUSC Photography / Facebook
M-43 Bridge -
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Wow that's no joke. We're pretty lucky here in Michigan in the fact that we have relatively short rivers by North American standards at least so we don't have to worry about more water from out of the area coming in and exacerbating the problem.
Not to mention we only very rarely get large rain events and inch or two of rain here is a big deal while near the Atlantic or down south and even in the plains during spring time they all can rainfall totals that sound more like snowfall totals to us.
But as the climate changes being in the business of trying to forecast the weather is going to become an increasingly tricky business with increasing abnormalities becoming the norm.
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Originally Posted by LMich
How is Arcadia Creek controlled? Is it just that the banks are so high, or is it seperated from the Kalamazoo River in some other way?
Lansing got pummeled, too. Fortunately, the major commerical areas of the city sit above the floodplain, but there are certainly parts of these areas still in it. Another half a foot or so and we'd have had extensive damage downtown. From the MSP.
Downtown
Old Town
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Michigan State University
Still tons of damage, and a lot of evacuations on the eastside.
Anyway, really excited to hear about the development across from Arcadia Creek Festival Place. It sounds like it's really going to interact with the street, well. |
My lil sister was there for the 2013 flood she wasn't affected but I do remember her talking about it must have been wild if it's worse than this one.