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[Ka3kab]

Pretty windy up here in Traverse City, too.  Don't know about any power outages, but we had a lot of flight delays and cancellations because of the a 40 mph cross wind.

[dtown]

VeeFan, on Mar 14 2006, 12:18 AM, said:

Getting home from class was a bit of a challenge today, because at some points the wind was practically blowing the traffic lights vertical and you couldn't see what color the light was.

yeah, i saw some of that today too


p.s.- i just realized im a member+ now

Edited by dtown, 14 March 2006 - 02:10 PM.

[Ka3kab]

dtown, on Mar 14 2006, 03:09 PM, said:

yeah, i saw some of that today too
p.s.- i just realized im a member+ now

Your also a whistle-stop, too.  Ooh, aren't you lucky.

[dtown]

haha woohoo, big honor

[VeeFan]

There's supposed to be another storm system coming in within the next few days...I don't know how much more rain the Flint River can bear to get before it starts flooding the low areas of Flushing Road, or before it starts backing up the Holloway Damn.

[dtown]

i dont know either...even this morning all the little creeks and drainage creeks were up pretty high...i dont know if  they can open the dams up more or anything to stop the flooding though

[VeeFan]

Speaking of creeks, I live in a subdivision off of Elms Road, and the only way into our road is over a little bridge; a bridge that has already been caving in for close to a year now without being fixed...and I won't be surprised now if we get any more rain over the next few days and I try to go to class only to discover that the bridge is washed out. lol

My friend commented on the dam today, it looks like they're open just about all the way, yet the water is almost to the top.

[dtown]

man, u prolly dont get out this way much, but Kearsley Creek, under I-69 was OVER its banks, and flowing into some feilds...it so high

[dtown]

umm, i was kinda wondering why the Mid-Michigan Downtown Potential says Zachariadaman posted today. but when i click on it, the last post is from september

[andrew.w]

dtown, on Mar 21 2006, 03:22 PM, said:

umm, i was kinda wondering why the Mid-Michigan Downtown Potential says Zachariadaman posted today. but when i click on it, the last post is from september

It's an issue with  polls that can be deceiving.  

When someone votes in a poll as someone apparently did in this one today, the last action date is updated to the current date.  

However, Zachariadaman was the last person to actually post something and his name doesn't change.  

So the it doesn't necessarily say that he posted today, rather he was the last to post in September and someone else voted in the poll today.


...Am I even making any sense?

[dtown]

your making sense, but that doesnt make sense

[VeeFan]

Starting tomorrow, BSC is going to begin selling ice cream.   Seems like Julie is doing something new everytime I go there now.

[bobjgumby]

VeeFan, on Mar 29 2006, 04:38 PM, said:

Starting tomorrow, BSC is going to begin selling ice cream.   Seems like Julie is doing something new everytime I go there now.

mmm.  Ice cream.  What kind of ice cream is she selling?

[VeeFan]

It looks like it's going to be ice cream bars and the like.

[dtown]

ive never been to the BSC, i should stop by sometime

[VeeFan]

It's a really great place.   Very cozy, and the owner is really nice.

[dtown]

i take it Juilie is the owner?

[Dan]

Whats Up Everyone!  

I stopped by your Flint thread to check out whats going on in town.  I watched Roger and Me in my sociology class a couple years ago and I was just wondering how much different Flint is today compared with Michael Moore's depiction during the time period soon after GM closed.  

Where are the jobs?  Has anything been done about the blighted neighborhoods?  What is the ethnic makeup of the community today?

You guys should put together a Flint - past and present thread for uninformed people like myself who only know Flint from the Moore documentary.  Here in Providence, a formerly manufacturing-rich city located in between Boston and New York, we've done great things with our old textile mills and historic downtown buildings.  I'm sure Flint still has lots of big old factories, and I'm curious what has been done to revitalize them.  With some creativity and the right marketing strategy, perhaps Flint can follow our lead and experience its own kind of Renaissance.

- Dan

[VeeFan]

BuickCity probably would have been the best to save, or at least the Administration building would have made the perfect building for a museum.  I don't think Sloan Museum currently is big enough of a facility, and the architecture of the Admin. building was very complimentary.  But you're spot on about the rest of the factories being nothing more than sheet metal.

And the best buildings to showcase by renovating are the ones downtown.  And speaking of First Street Lofts, I noticed today that they had put a large hole in front of the second floor.  Are they putting in a large window right there, or is it going to be part of the entrance (i.e., a foyer)?  One building that especially needs to be renovating is the Capitol Theater.  I'd much rather have Flint know for having one of those rare movie palaces than for the flight of GM and the automotive industry.  We have other great attributes here other than GM, and they need to be focused on.  FIM is one of the top 15 music institutes in the country, U of M recently named as one of the top 30 most diversified college bodies, and on top of that the older homes in Flint are some of the most beautiful homes you'll ever see.  There's one on MLK near 11th Street (??) that I would love to buy and renovate, has this gorgeous gazebo built right off the side of the house.

[dtown]

hmm, a foyer would be real cool, itd make it look fancy

there are some beautiful homes in Flint, but most of them have just been left to rot...