“Rain Bomb” explodes on Northport

mLive shared this video by Russell Madsen showing the after effects of a burst of slow-moving thunderstorms dumped an estimated 5-plus inches of rain in an hour and a half on Monday morning.

The Leelanau Enterprise story adds more details about the flooding & aftermath in Northport, writing in part:

Northport Village Council President and village resident Chris McCann, who was working at the Northport Creek Golf Course during the heavy downpour, said the severe weather event was unlike anything he’s seen before in his 40-plus years of living in the village.

“In all my years living in Northport — I have not seen that much rain in such a short amount of time,” McCann said. “We have spots on the golf course where we’ve been open for 12 years, same thing, water holding in fairways where we have drains that filter into our retention pond which are like 60-100 feet across because there’s just so much of it (water) right now.”

Here’s hoping the cleanup goes well!