Northern Mich~Mash Preserve
~ ELEMENTS OF NATURE ~
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The 7 October 1903 The Petoskey Record reported about a Saturday Night Storm: Streets were raging torrents, overflowing the curbs. Lockwood hospital's chimneys were blown off at the roof and the falling mass of brick broker in the roof and sprung the wall, letting in the water in streams. St. Francis church's great brick arch over the high altar was blown down with the fifty feet of scaffolding. The RECORD office in the basement of the Masonic block was flooded with mud and water. The Brutus Catholic church was demolished... and oh, so many more storm tragedies. The ELEMENTS OF NATURE...
Flash Flooding in Petoskey
1961
1961
Photo Below: Reg Sharkey wrote of the Need to Play a Part in Preserving NATURE for Tomorrow
1968
Photo Below: Ice was gone from the bay and no snow was on the ground on Christmas Day
1979
1979
Same Element of Nature (SALT) Different Year (NINE YEARS LATER)
2012 AND 2021
Shoppers on 21 April 2018 found that the merchants or owners of empty storefronts on the Shady Side of the Street had not cleared the snow/ice from the previous snowstorm... so, shopping was more "ent-ICE-ing" on the Sunny Side of the Street.
Two Videos Below: Videos taken by K. Reeb on 27 March 2018
of Unique Blue Ice Crystals being broken beneath the Straits of Mackinac...
Sound is original and NOT enhanced!
of Unique Blue Ice Crystals being broken beneath the Straits of Mackinac...
Sound is original and NOT enhanced!
Two Photos Below: Photos taken in Emmet County near Petoskey, Michigan, by K. Reeb
Identified from an on-line source as "Polyporus Squamosus (Dryad's Saddle)" ...
Identified from an on-line source as "Polyporus Squamosus (Dryad's Saddle)" ...