MASSIVE FLOODING in Michigan! The Dogs and Us are SAFE!

Good wonderful beautiful morning buddies. Holy cow. What a day it was yesterday. We didn't vlog yesterday and we probably should have but it rained all day. From like the middle of the night to the middle of the night last night and then we had 24 mile an hour winds last night. We actually lost power for most of the night. Can't really tell out here that we got that much rain and craziness but we might have to go take a ride and go see the dam and go see some of the flooding. There's massive flooding happening in our area. We're safe but it's crazy and then north of us in Sheboygan there's like a risk that the dam there is going to break so they have a ready set go evacuation order ready and as of this morning they have enacted the ready part of it. They're telling people in Sheboygan, Michigan to be ready to flee if the dam up there breaks. It's kind of crazy right now. So if you do not know, we live in northern Michigan. Michigan has tons of water, lakes, rivers watersheds, all of that stuff and a lot of dams and a lot of our infrastructure for our dams is extremely old. Some of them are already too old for their life cycle so there's a whole bunch of them that really need to be torn down or somebody needs to buy them and they need to be upgraded. Long, long, long story short, there's a lot going on with a lot of the dams in northern Michigan right now. Because you guys saw we had so much snow and ice and then everything started melting really rapidly and then we got like two inches of rain yesterday. We're supposed to get more rain tomorrow. It's a little crazy around here. Now as I said, where Jamie and I are, we are fine. We are on higher ground. There is a lake not far from us and the ditches out there could fill up with water but we're good as of right now. We aren't close to any of the rivers. Like my parents live on Thunder Bay River. They actually live at the flood end of Thunder Bay River so they're past one of the dams and they have a ton of water at their house. But again, right now they're okay. My mom said as they're like taking showers and stuff you can hear the gurgling because they have a well and a septic and the water level is so high. Some of that stuff isn't working real great but their house is fine. Everything out there is fine. So like I said, we might have to go drive around and see what we can see. We checked all our trees and all the things this morning and everything in our yard looks good. But yeah, those 25 mile an hour wind last night knocked out our power, knocked out my parents power. Bunch of people lost power last night but we don't have any downed trees which is good. Hi Kira! How you doing? It's like 60 degrees outside today. This is crazy. And it's supposed to be cold again in a few days. It's trying. Oh there's a bug! I saw a bug. It's official. Spring is here. Memphis is like, I'm going back here to check out the fact that there's finally no snow and or ice back there. Today, the day I'm filming this is April 12th I think? Or 13th? I don't know. It's the 12th or the 13th I think. So that's how long it took for all of our snow and ice to be gone. Look! It's a real flower! Wow! So we came down to SciTech Park first. This is where we usually walk the dogs into the water sometimes and there's like three steps. There's three still. Yeah. There's three steps that are covered and the bridge back in there that Shelby and I went through one time flooded like this is covered as well. It's moving fast. It is moving very fast. And this is just going into the watershed. Look! There's a little whirlpool happening. It's like right there. Huh! Yeah, this is just the watershed. So... Alright, let's go see what else we can see. Look! We found a waterfall, hun! There's a waterfall right there. This is normally... There's a duck! There's a duck over there, yeah, floating down the river. This is not normally flowing. This is a partridge and pinecrest. Yeah. And it doesn't normally look like this. Didn't there used to be like a walkway bridge that went across there? Uh, it looks like at one point. Yeah, cause there's the other side of it and the trail ends there. Oh boy. Yeah, a little bit of flooding. They suddenly have lakefront property. That, uh... They were smart enough to build their garden. Yeah. You gotta be careful here. Look at it. It's just flowing across. It's two big culverts and it's still going over. Still going. Wow. Water over road. You don't say! I don't think it might not. These people... There's houses back here and they have riverfront property all of a sudden. Yeah, this could be scary. That's a little... It's a little bumpy. It's a little runny right there. It's not deep though, guys. You can see the bottom. That's the important part. Look at it running. Wow. Yeah. Just a little bit of runoff. Wow. Thankfully, it looks like it's still at least a foot and a half below their driveway bridge. But look at that water. Yeah, going right through the culvert there. And then, that's the golf course back there. And it's, uh... There's no goofy golfers today. Look at that! It's just coming out. We should go get the kayaks. Let's see how fast it's flowing. We can just kayak right down this whole area. It's going about this fast. How fast is that? I don't know. Sixty-seven degrees. Oh my lord. Yeah, it's sixty-seven degrees outside, guys. It's warm. About four miles out. Wow, this is so crazy. It doesn't happen very often here, but when it does... There is, which means there's more water. We can't go this way. They've got the road closed. I remember when this house was for sale. I do. Look it. That's the golf course. They have riverfront property. That water is moving so fast. Their grass is gonna be so green. Yeah. Wow. Oh gosh, I hope everything in their house is okay. These poor people. This is nuts. Oh, they have a basement. Yes, that house has a basement. Most of these do not, but I do know that one does. Okay, we're not driving through this because the road is closed. I don't think they're home. I think they've been evacuated. Not that it would get, like, super deep, but still. Hey, cobra chickens! You're having a good time in the water. Alright, we headed out Devil's Lake Trail area. This is where we went snowmobiling. We wanted to come check on some stuff back here. Hopefully the trees are not all over the road because because there was that ice storm and we haven't been back here since then. Let's see what's going on back here. We'll check on the lake. The water in the woods is almost over this culvert. You can see it, like, sucking down into it. And then here, Jamie, I'll show you the other side. Coming out like crazy! And yes, there's still ice back here. I don't think anybody's been down this way in a while. That tree goes right across the road. We could just go this way. I thought that, but there's another big stump up there. Yeah, I don't want to go off the trail. Yeah, that's probably not a great idea. Alright, Jamie's gonna move a tree. I think we've seen this move by you before. You can do it! There he goes, moving the tree. He'll pull it, and then he'll turn, and then he'll slowly pull it off the trail, and that way we can get around it. It snapped off right there. There's a whole bunch of cut trees, but they didn't cut that tree. And then it fell across the trail. Now he hooked it up again. And look, now it's off the trail. We forgot our saw once again, but look, now it's out of the way. We found the lake flooding. Can you see? Can I try to zoom? Into the water. You can see there's into the water. This is where the lake is starting to flood. Over the road a little, and over here as well. It's like 8 inches deep. Yeah, at least. It's definitely flooded. There you go. There's my culvert. Can you see the culvert? Oh, there it is. It's completely under water. That means there's one on this side too. It's under water. It's still doing it's job though. It's only flooded right up here. And not horribly bad. No, and it's not flowing here. No, and it's not like... It's not super deep. This is like Tomahawk. Yeah. Oh gosh, I bet that's crazy flooded right now. There you go. There you go. Yeah, it's a little deep over here too. Huh. Okay. There you go. Here's a view for you. Yeah, it's not too deep, but it's a couple inches. There's a chunk of ice. I felt you go over it. Look, tree. There's the ice. Not too bad. And we do. We have a stick stowaway over there. Okay. Jamie and I both just had the discussion that we don't think we've ever seen Devils Lake this high. Yeah. And then this is where we stopped when we went snow mo... There's something in the water over there. I don't like the noise it's making. Don't be a trapped animal. I don't want to get wet. I might have to investigate. Anyway, I wanted to show you guys that there's some downed trees here. This is where we stopped with the snowmobile to look at the lake. And now all these trees have come down. I say, are you going towards it? We gotta go see what this was. Well, we kind of walked over this way a little bit more. We heard some ducks. So we might... Yeah, I think it's a duck. I think Jamie's right. I can't see it. And it's so thick right here. We just wanted to make sure it wasn't something that needed help. But we think it's a duck. That's what we're hoping. Well, we did not bring the saw. And they're really wedged in the trees over there. And I don't know if you can see this way. That's where they came out of the ground. There's a hill over there. I don't think we can pull these. And there's not much way to get around. And there's a ton more down up here that we can already see. I say, turn around and go back the other way. Also, Jamie, I just had a tick on me. I did. I saw. That was gross. I know. I feel a little creepy crawly now. I'm just saying. It is. Yep. I don't think we're getting around this one. We can turn around and go back through all that water. That'll be fun. Turn your audio up. Tell me if you guys can hear it. Those are frogs, right? I believe so. We think those are frogs. That's crazy. Oh look, we gotta go back through this again. I'll film it with this this time instead of the 360. Cause look, now you guys can see just how much water is rushing right there. And right here. Kind of see how deep it is. It's really not that bad. Okay, that's really deep Right there. And right there. But then it gets shallow again. So we're totally good. I feel like I don't even have to ask. Do you want to go... Do you want to go for a walk? Yeah? That was the quickest yes ever. You do? Memphis, be careful. And the gate's open. Here they come. Look out. The garage door's open. See you later. Bye. We're two seconds into this walk. We're two seconds in. And you're up front. I don't think you need to be making all that noise. Ha ha, we're leaving your sisters behind. We're leaving them behind. We're going I suppose. Hello happy girl. She's like, now we're moving. Now I'm going. I'm going. She was quiet for a second. That tree's still touching the power line. It is. Maybe it's not a power line. I don't think it is. I guess that would explain why they didn't fix it yet. Hey Shaggy. My goodness. Hey. Back to the Eleanor yelling. She's like, no. I'm on a mission. I'm going to yell all I want. I'm happy. I'm yelling. Memphis is like, I'm just happy to be walking. We got to sniff this pole. She's like, no. No dad, I'm excited. Oh no. There's a little mini waterfall coming out of their base. Not necessarily their basement, but out from under their house. Yes, let's keep tracking and we'll count how many. There's at least one. The neighbor across the street from us had one, so there's two. Let's see how many we find. You can stop and sniff the things they're sniffing. Wow Memphis, I saw that. I'm so happy. This is so great. I'm having so much fun. 62 degrees out it says right now. Yeah, I believe it. It's pretty nice out. I almost forgot to film it. We got another little waterfall there that officially makes at least three. We probably missed some though. We got some full ditches. I'm sure there's... That house up there pumps out into the ditch, so that would be at least what, five I think total now? Five little mini waterfalls? This one pumps out here. I don't see any over here, so I think we're good on this side. No, we're not swimming in that. Don't let her in the water! Get out of the ditch water! No ditch water. She could swim in that. She looks like she was thinking about it. Somebody was trying to encourage her. Their culverts are full all the way up to the top. All the way to the top. Yeah, don't get in that. It's probably nasty. I don't know that that's great water. It's like runoff water. Whoa! There's a... Yeah! A little bit of water there. Hear them? I hear spring peepers. The male lady told us that this road is flooded too. Kira? Don't you dare! Whoa! Her paw touched it! I'm keeping Eleanor over here. Oh yeah! It is flooding back there. Sure is! Kira! Do not! Do not get in the ditch water! Look hun! It is flooded that way and he did clear cut all the way to the road. Now it's flooded flooded. Oh yeah! You guys can see back there where he clear cut. That's crazy! Alright Eleanor, you want to check it out? She's like, No! We're not swimming! She's like, I would totally get in that water! Get out of the ditch! Let's go check out this waterfall Memphis! Or Memphis... Eleanor! Whatever your name is! You too Memphis! Let's go check out this waterfall, cause we found another one. There's another one! Going into the ditch! We just got back from the walk and Eleanor's like, Mom, will you open this pool gate? Mom, maybe open this? We're not getting... No! We're not getting in the pool! It's not even ready yet! Not yet sweetheart! Oh! Critter! Memphis is like, Oh my gosh you guys, that was such a long walk! You did it! You did a mile! You'll be a little sore, but you did it! Stop tripping over your own feet! It is so crazy to think that it was 62 degrees out when we walked the dogs and it's already down to 42 and it's only gonna be 39 tomorrow. Is she gonna kick that light on? I think I angled it right, so maybe she would? Nope, not yet. Done! We got a new light back there. And I was hoping that when Eleanor got to about right there that it would turn on, so I might have to move it. What? You want your cookie? Alright. You did pretty good on your walk today and you weren't too sore after we got home. We call that a win, right? That's a win! Alright you guys, we hope you enjoyed today's video. As always, thanks so much for watching. Thanks for subscribing. Stay positive, dream big, and we will see you again soon. Go to bed. Go on. She's getting water first. Good night, audience.