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https://www.abc12.com/content/news/Whitmer-working-with-FEMA-on-federal-aid-for-Midland-investigating-dam-failures-570629521.html

the sanford dam is still intact for now.

Midland flood map https://cityofmidlandmi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=dce957dc48df43929d8afccbf47edd6a I guess silver lining is the major population centers should be somewhat spared. Still absolutely devastating though

the dams in midland county in mid michigan have been topped and can no longer control the flow of water. https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2020/05/midland-county-residents-urged-to-leave-homes-due-to-imminent-dam-failure.html

Detroit has a lot of international travel due to the auto industry. I believe dtw was one of the few airports in the country that was still accepting flights from china even after the travel ban in late January. That probably had a lot to do with the high community spread that occurred in the metro detroit area, which is where most of the cases and deaths have occurred. here is a good article that compared # of cases to ohio but applies to several other states as well https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/04/6-reasons-michigan-has-four-times-more-coronavirus-cases-than-ohio.html

to me this pandemic has confirmed these things to me: -America is far too dependent on other countries to produce essential everyday items. Someone brought it up earlier but we need to go back to being more of a production economy. -Americans desperately need education on how to manage their money properly. Too many people are living beyond their means. -Politics has divided this country so much, we can't even get along during a global pandemic.

I think whitmer needs to do a better job of communicating and explaining to the public exactly why some businesses have been deemed essential while others are being required to close. The whole weed/liqueur stores issue is a perfect example of this. Communication between the government and the public is key, especially the longer this drags on.

it was only stopped in it's tracks in china when they literally started welding doors shut on people's houses. A more realistic example for the US would be south korea where they ramped up testing right away and controversially forced infected people to submit themselves to tracking via their cell phones to ensure they were quarantining themselves

what's scary is that it took almost a two month lockdown of wuhan to get where they are at now and we don't even know for sure if china's reporting is accurate. A lockdown like that will never happen here

These social distancing measures are going to last much longer than 2 weeks most likely based on what the top government officials are saying. more like 2 months at the least. I think they are just going in these 2 week intervals as to not cause the public to panic even more than they already are. But hopefully companies can figure out a way to get back up and running in at least some capacity before then.

This is the first big virus scare in the social media age. That is driving a lot of what we are seeing right imo. The last big virus scare one was the H1N1 flu 10 years ago but social media was in its infancy, which is why panic was much less than what we are seeing right now The entire sports world shutting down is going to hit home for a lot of people that don't normally pay attention to this kind of stuff imo

meanwhile in SE michigan, some lost power yesterday when a trampoline flew into a substation during that line of storms

Yeah. they also sent out an emergency alert to cell phones at 10:30 pm.

what spring?