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catbyte

(35,305 posts) Wed Sep 4, 2024, 10:35 AM Sep 4

Are the Mackinac Straits Really That Important? Here's a Little Bit of Its History and Purpose.

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Are the Mackinac Straits Really That Important? Here's a Little Bit of Its History and Purpose. (Original Post) catbyte Sep 4 OP

Thank you for posting this catbyte. I drove across the bridge twice, terrified both trips irisblue Sep 4 #1

The bridge can be interesting, especially when the concrete lane is under repair, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 4 #3

Even though the steel grid sounds a little unnerving, I prefer to drive on that rather than the outside lane. catbyte Sep 4 #5

Why is this guy yelling? Sneederbunk Sep 4 #2

Kincheloe AFB LessAspin Sep 4 #4

irisblue

(33,720 posts)

1. Thank you for posting this catbyte. I drove across the bridge twice, terrified both trips

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Wed Sep 4, 2024, 10:43 AM

Sep 4

The wind can be...intense

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,673 posts)

3. The bridge can be interesting, especially when the concrete lane is under repair, ...

Reply to irisblue (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 4, 2024, 12:18 PM

Sep 4

... and some part of it is always under repair. Then you have to take the inner lane, on the steel grid surface. That's a strange ride, on a motorcycle.

Somehow, I am more frightened on a long, low bridge, like crossing Tampa Bay or Lake Ponchartrain. That's scary.

catbyte

(35,305 posts)

5. Even though the steel grid sounds a little unnerving, I prefer to drive on that rather than the outside lane.

Reply to JustABozoOnThisBus (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 4, 2024, 06:53 PM

Sep 4

I think it's because I never forgot that young woman from the Detroit area who went over the edge at about the mid-point when a gust of wind caught her Yugo and she sailed over the edge. This was in the mid-80s. It still gives me the willies.

Sneederbunk

(14,862 posts)

2. Why is this guy yelling?

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Wed Sep 4, 2024, 11:33 AM

Sep 4

LessAspin

(1,319 posts)

4. Kincheloe AFB

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Wed Sep 4, 2024, 06:20 PM

Sep 4

Interesting nugget on Kincheloe Air Force Base

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincheloe_Air_Force_Base

During the Cold War, Wurtsmith was one of three Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases in Michigan with the B-52 bomber, the others (Kincheloe AFB and Sawyer AFB) were in the Upper Peninsula...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurtsmith_Air_Force_Base

The National Review envisions the Great Lakes returning to some sort of strategic relevance..

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