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Speaker 2: Come to another edition of the Macina Island Moments podcast,
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Speaker 2: From Macina Island folks, It's been just about a week
Speaker 2: or two since we talked last, and I want to
Speaker 2: update everybody in the cleanup efforts that have commenced on
Speaker 2: Macan Island. It's it's no big surprise. We had the
Speaker 2: big storm a couple of weeks ago, the big ice
Speaker 2: storm storm of the century as folks are calling it,
Speaker 2: and I concur with that analogy. I do want to
Speaker 2: clear up some of the misinformation going around, so we're
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna touch on that today and then some
Speaker 2: of the you know, pronounced efforts that have gone into
Speaker 2: getting us back on track. This episode is sponsored by
Speaker 2: our friends at the Mustang Lounge.
Speaker 3: The oldest historic tavern.
Speaker 2: In Michigan, located on Astor Street. The Mustang was crucial
Speaker 2: and these clean up efforts and not only getting open,
Speaker 2: but staying open and helping supply meals, and we'll touch
Speaker 2: on that in a bit. So I wanted you to
Speaker 2: know that the cleanup began immediately. You know, the Islanders
Speaker 2: are a pretty resilient bunch, and that's been fostered by,
Speaker 2: you know, our independence from mainland.
Speaker 3: Securities, so to speak.
Speaker 2: We're pretty resourceful folks, not because we're built any different
Speaker 2: than the rest of the world, but because we've had
Speaker 2: to be. You know, you're at the mercy of a
Speaker 2: boat or an airplane, so you get a little bit
Speaker 2: more resourceful over time.
Speaker 3: But cleanup began immediately.
Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is even during the storm,
Speaker 2: State Park and Fire Department crews were out clearing vital roads,
Speaker 2: which are you know, in my opinion, roads that lead
Speaker 2: from the fire station to any occupied residents, because we
Speaker 2: had to secure fire and MS lanes in the event
Speaker 2: of emergency. Because some of you may not be aware,
Speaker 2: but people do live here year round, so we want
Speaker 2: to make sure they had support efforts available.
Speaker 3: So to that end, let me say this.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of headlines that said, will
Speaker 2: MC and Island open? Is MC and Island open, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. This is a living breeding community and I
Speaker 2: touched upon that in the very first podcast, the intro.
Speaker 2: This is a town with citizens and a school, a
Speaker 2: police department, a medical center that's open year round. So
Speaker 2: I don't know how we ever closed to get to
Speaker 2: the point where are we going to open?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: I know there's some you know, some.
Speaker 2: Words you can play with, because the vast majority of
Speaker 2: our businesses are seasonal, and those businesses do open in
Speaker 2: the end of April, beginning of May. The Grand Hotel,
Speaker 2: Fort mckinawe, you know, Mission Point Resort, all the big
Speaker 2: places are going to open here in about I don't
Speaker 2: even know what the date is, April twelfth, April thirteent.
Speaker 2: They're going to open in about two weeks ten days.
Speaker 2: So yes, I guess if you want to play some
Speaker 2: attics with words like that, you could say those businesses open.
Speaker 3: But you know, the.
Speaker 2: Ferry service runs until it can't and some years that
Speaker 2: means it runs year round, and some years it means
Speaker 2: it only runs till the beginning of January and then
Speaker 2: it resumes as soon as it can. In some years
Speaker 2: that means the second week of January, and some years
Speaker 2: it means not until April. This year, it resumed pretty
Speaker 2: early in March. I think around March tenth or so,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. So you can always get to the island.
Speaker 2: And let me clarify that Mcina Island is eighty two
Speaker 2: percent state park, which means it's owned by the people
Speaker 2: of the state of Michigan. That includes all the woods
Speaker 2: and the shore. You know, the road around the beach
Speaker 2: is in the state park, the shore Fort mckinaw's in
Speaker 2: the state park, and in fact, the East and West
Speaker 2: Bluff Cottages are in the state park. More on that
Speaker 2: another episode, I guess. But it's a state park and
Speaker 2: there's no open and closed sign on that state park.
Speaker 2: A lot of us enjoy the park in the winter.
Speaker 2: Cross country skiing here is unparalleled. And you know, Arch
Speaker 2: Rock doesn't close. They don't take it down for the
Speaker 2: year and put it away. Sugar Loaf doesn't close. Ford
Speaker 2: Holmes doesn't close. It's their year round to enjoy. Just
Speaker 2: getting here isn't very easy or or established, if you will.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it doesn't close.
Speaker 3: So I don't know how it could open.
Speaker 2: But you know, sensational headlines sell or as they teach
Speaker 2: in marketing, one O one sex sells. So you know,
Speaker 2: click driven headlines like will mc and Island open or
Speaker 2: mac and Island won't open on their opening day and
Speaker 2: such like that, they want you to click on that
Speaker 2: because they're click driven sites. Each time you click, someone
Speaker 2: gets a tenth of a penny or something, and if
Speaker 2: they get one hundred thousand of you to click on that,
Speaker 2: then that's great. I guess headlines like mac and Island
Speaker 2: is cleaning up and shouldn't see any sort of glitch
Speaker 2: and opening day for their businesses, that's probably not a clicker.
Speaker 2: So that's truly what's going on though, And you know
Speaker 2: what's led up to that is just a pronounced effort
Speaker 2: on a lot of folks as part to make this happen.
Speaker 3: And we're very lucky.
Speaker 2: Bryce Tracy from the Office of Emergency Management for Macinac County.
Speaker 2: Macina Island is in Macinac County. It's the first county
Speaker 2: the Neper Peninsula off the bridge. He worked pretty hard
Speaker 2: to get the National Guard secured to come over here
Speaker 2: and help clean up primary roads and such, and there
Speaker 2: was no small undertaking. A lot of people were asking
Speaker 2: for help, and you got to be really good at
Speaker 2: your dot and your eyes and crossing your t's and
Speaker 2: make that happen. And we did get the call on
Speaker 2: Wednesday that or was it on Thursday? You know, folks,
Speaker 2: my days I've been running together since this thing started.
Speaker 2: But we did get a call on Wednesday that on
Speaker 2: Thursday morning, a detachment from the Michigan National Guard would
Speaker 2: be heading over along with a chainsaw Strikeforce team from MAYBIS.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is the Michigan Automated box alarm system. And
Speaker 2: we're real happy to hear that this was going to happ happened,
Speaker 2: so we had to react quickly. We had to get
Speaker 2: some people together around, some manpower up ourselves. We needed
Speaker 2: meals for the guys, and apparently in some of their
Speaker 2: deployments they sleep on cots and they bring their own
Speaker 2: food with them, and the people in this town right
Speaker 2: away said, oh, absolutely not. And our friends down at
Speaker 2: Mission Point offered up hotel rooms for all the guys
Speaker 2: and gals.
Speaker 3: They brought some women with them as.
Speaker 2: Well, and they offered up hotel rooms and between the
Speaker 2: Mayor's office, the city clerk, the Mayor's assistant, and I'm
Speaker 2: probably missing some folks, I know, they worked together with
Speaker 2: the Mustang Lounge and they catered in some meals. So
Speaker 2: in the morning when they rolled off the freight boat,
Speaker 2: there was coffee and sweet rolls ready to go, and
Speaker 2: then they had a warm lunch, and then they had
Speaker 2: a warm dinner, and the next day they had a
Speaker 2: warm breakfast and a warm lunch again, and so much
Speaker 2: so that the guardsmen started to enjoy themselves, I think.
Speaker 2: And what that was was just some good old fashioned
Speaker 2: mac And Island hospitality. And you know where a town
Speaker 2: steeped in tradition of hospitality, and we know when to
Speaker 2: roll out the red carpet, so to speak. So what
Speaker 2: happened is they loaded all their ancillary vehicles and side
Speaker 2: by sides onto the Arnold Frights vessel Senator and they
Speaker 2: departed Saint Agnes. And my god, if you would have
Speaker 2: seen Market Street, it was lined up from the from
Speaker 2: the post office almost almost to the medical center with
Speaker 2: pickup trucks and ATVs and troop transports. I mean they
Speaker 2: had to bring they had to bring vehicles, and we
Speaker 2: were happy to see them.
Speaker 3: There wasn't even a qualm about that.
Speaker 2: So they rolled off and we went up to the
Speaker 2: community hall became their operating base, that's right down next
Speaker 2: to the fire station, and we kind of met went
Speaker 2: over to the lieutenant, and I went over to the
Speaker 2: firehouse to look at some maps and kind of point
Speaker 2: out some stuff. And you know, they're on a real
Speaker 2: strict mission that they're only to take care of primary roads,
Speaker 2: and you know they're not going interior because that's not
Speaker 2: part of the highway. And what I did explain to
Speaker 2: the lieutenant as I said, look, you know, any other
Speaker 2: state park in Michigan, you can close the gate or
Speaker 2: put a saw horse across it and the park is
Speaker 2: closed and nobody's going to drive through that. But here
Speaker 2: on macn Island, you don't drive your car. You walk
Speaker 2: or take a bicycle. And I said, what's going to
Speaker 2: end up happening is going to be very similar to
Speaker 2: when the highway was closed around the east side from
Speaker 2: the big wash out from the storm. So you can
Speaker 2: put all the barricade tape and all the saw horses,
Speaker 2: you want, and people are going to cross that and
Speaker 2: go out there anyway. And if we'd have had those
Speaker 2: that Art Rock Road closed and Sugarloaf Road, people are
Speaker 2: going to hop that and they're going to head out
Speaker 2: there anyway. And that's fine until they get hurt out there,
Speaker 2: and then we have no way to get an ambulance
Speaker 2: to them or any other services. Not to mention, the
Speaker 2: dry season comes up in spring and that's you know,
Speaker 2: when we start being on high alert for any fire
Speaker 2: in the woods. So, you know, getting it open to us,
Speaker 2: I guess on paper, to the guard it probably didn't
Speaker 2: seem like a priority, but to us that are in
Speaker 2: the know, it was. So I had a little discussion
Speaker 2: with the lieutenant, and as luck would have it, I said,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're familiar with our t rock.
Speaker 2: He said, I'm very familiar with our t rock. Me
Speaker 2: and my wife got engaged at our trock and I said, okay, perfect.
Speaker 2: So if we don't get our t rock open and
Speaker 2: you don't get out there to get a picture to
Speaker 2: show your wife, you're going to have bigger trouble than me.
Speaker 2: And we all kind of laughed, and he said, again,
Speaker 2: our mission is to open up your primary roads and
Speaker 2: we'll see what we can do afterwards. I said, I
Speaker 2: understand that, but those those are primary to us. And
Speaker 2: so they went to work and we split the teams
Speaker 2: up and they went to the east side of the
Speaker 2: island because that road was not open yet. The State
Speaker 2: park was able to get the west side open. Took
Speaker 2: a crew of four or five almost two days to
Speaker 2: get it open from British Landing to town. And that
Speaker 2: side didn't get hit as bad because it's not as
Speaker 2: a pronounced you know, it's steep for the first mile
Speaker 2: or two, but then it starts of flatten out around
Speaker 2: stone cliffs, so it's not as a pronounced amount of
Speaker 2: dead fall.
Speaker 3: But on the east side it was really bad.
Speaker 2: So they split up and they started coming at it
Speaker 2: from two different directions, and we were hoping by day's
Speaker 2: end the two teams would meet up and then the
Speaker 2: highway would be open. I mean it's called a highway, folks,
Speaker 2: because it is M one five. It is a state highway,
Speaker 2: just there aren't any cars on it. So as luck
Speaker 2: would have it, and it's a surprise to us. By
Speaker 2: eleven thirty or so eleven forty, the two teams met
Speaker 2: they had the road clear. I mean, these guys were
Speaker 2: going to town and chainsaws were flying and cedars were flying,
Speaker 2: birch trees were flying, and they were making.
Speaker 3: Fast work out of what they had to do.
Speaker 2: And fortunately they got that cleared. So then they reconvene
Speaker 2: at the base headquarters and made another plan and they said, okay,
Speaker 2: well we'll now start working on those secondary roads. We're here,
Speaker 2: so let's take on some more stuff.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: So they were able to get our trock open, and
Speaker 2: then they're able to get sugar Loaf open, and then
Speaker 2: they're able to get FOURD homes open.
Speaker 3: At one pm, I noted on my phone.
Speaker 2: Fort Holmes was liberated by the United States Army National Guard,
Speaker 2: and they all kind of jumped up on the fort
Speaker 2: and we took a photo of the guys who worked
Speaker 2: on that. Let me tell you, we're going up Fort
Speaker 2: Holmes Road, and these guys were running up the road
Speaker 2: from tree to tree, and you know, I almost wanted
Speaker 2: to yell out the window of the truck, you guys
Speaker 2: don't have to run, But then I remember the guys
Speaker 2: are all in their twenties. They probably run everywhere. They're
Speaker 2: like a bunch of deer. But anyway, they were running
Speaker 2: up Fort Holmes Road getting the trees out of the way,
Speaker 2: clearing it open, and then that was opened, and then
Speaker 2: they spent the rest of the afternoon finishing up Garrison
Speaker 2: Road and British Landing Road, and they were pretty soon.
Speaker 2: We started looking around and thought, you know what, we
Speaker 2: have every paved road there is open, except for Leslie Avenue,
Speaker 2: which is one of the better scenic roads in the island.
Speaker 3: But that is definitely not a primary road.
Speaker 2: And that's a tough one to sell, even to the
Speaker 2: guard And you know, we said, you know, the State
Speaker 2: Park will just have to chip away at that one.
Speaker 2: But these guys, guys also had a list from the
Speaker 2: city and the Department of Public Works for major infrastructure,
Speaker 2: and that was you know, one of the reasons we
Speaker 2: had to get up Fort Holmes right away is because
Speaker 2: the reservoir for mack And Island the water. You know,
Speaker 2: most towns you look and there's that great, big, bulbous
Speaker 2: tower with the town's name on it, and the water
Speaker 2: drains down from that into your service. Well, we have
Speaker 2: a million gallon reservoir as well, but it's up at
Speaker 2: Fort Homes and it's built into the ground, so you
Speaker 2: ride by it and you don't even know it. And
Speaker 2: so getting that cleared was essential as well. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of service manholes and such that had dead fall
Speaker 2: on them and trees, and so they went around and
Speaker 2: helped clear that up as well. And by dinner time
Speaker 2: we were sitting real pretty I mean, they were quite clear,
Speaker 2: you know, they will.
Speaker 3: Not do private property.
Speaker 2: They can't and we didn't expect them to, and we
Speaker 2: didn't make an ask on that either.
Speaker 3: But dinner was.
Speaker 2: Served at the community hall for the guys, and by
Speaker 2: now some camaraderie started to form between the fire unit,
Speaker 2: state park units and the guard and a little bit
Speaker 2: of laughter and we're having some fun. And then those
Speaker 2: guys were kind of done for the night, and they
Speaker 2: brought them down to their hotel at mission point, and
Speaker 2: I think they got a relax I know, one guy
Speaker 2: got a call from his wife or his girlfriend wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure they had a dry place to sleep
Speaker 2: and they had warm food, and he was laughing and said,
Speaker 2: this is just about our best detail yet.
Speaker 3: We're fine.
Speaker 2: So the next morning the reconvened at seven thirty in
Speaker 2: the morning, made new plan and even finished up more roads,
Speaker 2: and they even went to Mission Church, which is state owned,
Speaker 2: and there was a huge maple was right through the
Speaker 2: front the fence. Made fast work out of the fence,
Speaker 2: and the lieutenant said, we're going to get that done
Speaker 2: for you as well and help keep the other guys
Speaker 2: working on other stuff. If we can get all this stuff,
Speaker 2: that'll keep the local guys working on other stuff.
Speaker 3: So they are.
Speaker 2: So they did, and they laughed around noon on Friday, I.
Speaker 3: Believe it was.
Speaker 2: And you know, they did just a phenomenal job. They
Speaker 2: made fast work out of so much. Now during all
Speaker 2: this I keep reading these, you know, these headlines, Oh,
Speaker 2: we don't know if the island is going to open,
Speaker 2: it might be mid May, and I'm just you know,
Speaker 2: pulling my hair out reading this stuff. And I try
Speaker 2: not to comment because there's just no point.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I've had people argue with me about fires I've been to,
Speaker 2: and I you know, I tried to explain to them
Speaker 2: I was there, I'm the chief, and they still say, Nope, absolutely,
Speaker 2: that's not.
Speaker 3: How it went.
Speaker 2: I read it on a news outlet and I said, well,
Speaker 2: you can't argue with the internet, I guess, But you know,
Speaker 2: some of these things were, you know, just saying we
Speaker 2: don't know and hopefully it's mid May and and I
Speaker 2: get it. And a lot of these quote unquote news
Speaker 2: sources or Facebook pages. You also have to remember tourism
Speaker 2: in northern Michigan is probably the primary driving economic force,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of these areas are competing for
Speaker 2: that tourism. So some of these were promulgated from, you know,
Speaker 2: towns that compete with us for tourism dollars, and they
Speaker 2: were kind of piling on and I think they kind
Speaker 2: of figured if they could get you, the the general
Speaker 2: public and tourists to believe that mc and Island wasn't
Speaker 2: going to open, well, then maybe you'd go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: And you know, a lot of folks weren't like that, though,
Speaker 2: of course they knew that we're all in this together,
Speaker 2: particularly in this tourism trade.
Speaker 3: Everybody gets trickled down from everybody.
Speaker 2: So it's you know, it's not good to dog anybody,
Speaker 2: but it's really not good to dog somebody when it's
Speaker 2: not true. But my point of that story is what
Speaker 2: was the old quote there? Reports of our death have
Speaker 2: been greatly exaggerated, and I'm happy to say now all
Speaker 2: those roads. Every paved road on Mcin Island except for
Speaker 2: Leslie Avenue is opened to passage and you can ride
Speaker 2: your bike down it or walk it. You can get
Speaker 2: to our Trock, you can get to Fort Holmes Point.
Speaker 2: Lookout all the way around the beach. Are there piles
Speaker 2: of debris on the side of the road. Sure, sure,
Speaker 2: it's not garbage. It doesn't smell. It's just stacked up
Speaker 2: brush and tree and logs, and that's getting picked up
Speaker 2: by the hour. Eight park crews were out yesterday working.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're working today. I haven't been
Speaker 2: out of the house yet. I'll go out here shortly.
Speaker 2: They work and all day yesterday to pick up debris
Speaker 2: and take it to a central location where it'll be
Speaker 2: chipped and or burned. And next week a private contracting
Speaker 2: crew is coming in to pick up all the brush
Speaker 2: in the city areas, the residences and the neighborhoods. Just
Speaker 2: because this time here there's there's only a handful of
Speaker 2: dreys horse drawn dres on the road and a handful
Speaker 2: of drivers. Well, those guys are kind of committed to,
Speaker 2: you know, deliver the ups, deliver the mail, deliver the food,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, and they'd have been just overwhelmed
Speaker 2: to try to go, you know, neighborhood to neighborhood to
Speaker 2: pick up brush piles. So the city opted to hire
Speaker 2: a service that's going to come in with a boom
Speaker 2: lift as well to get rid of the widow makers,
Speaker 2: because there's some some hanging branches here and there, and
Speaker 2: they're gonna they're gonna kind of clear clear cut things
Speaker 2: and clean it up, I should say, not clear cut,
Speaker 2: clean it up. And that's going to start a week
Speaker 2: from tomorrow. So I can tell you right now, if
Speaker 2: you rode around downtown, you'd be hard pressed to believe
Speaker 2: that's the same town as it was two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: It looks amazingly different. And every day awnings are going
Speaker 2: up and you're starting to see deliveries. I know, Like
Speaker 2: I said, a couple of businesses are going to open
Speaker 2: right after Easter. I think the Grand Hotel does a
Speaker 2: soft opening. The end of Stone Cliff is going to
Speaker 2: have a soft opening mission point as well, And you're
Speaker 2: going to start seeing a few more restaurants open taverns
Speaker 2: if you will. And I would say we're well on pace,
Speaker 2: and what I indicated on a post on our sister's site,
Speaker 2: Mac and Island News and Views, was that I don't
Speaker 2: see a scenario at this point where any business isn't
Speaker 2: going to open on its.
Speaker 3: Pre described opening day.
Speaker 2: You know, back in January February the business to start
Speaker 2: saying our opening day is this, or opening day is that.
Speaker 2: I don't see a scenario where one single business says
Speaker 2: we're not going to open on time, at least due
Speaker 2: to the storm. Somebody might have some dry wall damage
Speaker 2: or some help didn't show up. You know, I can't
Speaker 2: control that, of.
Speaker 3: Course, but there's due to this storm.
Speaker 2: I don't see a scenario where anything isn't going to
Speaker 2: be open as its earlier prescribed time, you know. To
Speaker 2: that end, it is frustrating for the locals to read
Speaker 2: this open closed stuff. And we do love it in
Speaker 2: the winter.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I've said on many occasions I like winter better than summer.
Speaker 2: Not because I don't like tourists. I'm not in Moron.
Speaker 2: I understand what drives the economics of this town. I
Speaker 2: just like winter because it's pretty. It's there's all that
Speaker 2: snow and the ice, and then when there's open water,
Speaker 2: that azure blue water contrasting with the white is just
Speaker 2: really nice. And I like the views, and I do
Speaker 2: like if I want to go to art Rock, I'll
Speaker 2: have our trock to myself. If you walk out to
Speaker 2: our t rock at ten am on any day of
Speaker 2: the week in the dead of winter, you probably have
Speaker 2: it to yourself for as.
Speaker 3: Long as you want. Do we have some winter tourists? Sure? Sure,
Speaker 3: when those boats are running, there's one or two hotels down.
Speaker 3: The small hotels.
Speaker 2: Open in town, particularly around the big holidays, and they
Speaker 2: have people in them all the time.
Speaker 3: We had tourists.
Speaker 2: I was in Fort Mcanay yesterday and a family of
Speaker 2: tourists kind of walked through and I think they were
Speaker 2: surprised to see all the construction going on, But it
Speaker 2: was tourists, nonetheless. So the long of the short is
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't mean to sound obtuse to the
Speaker 2: situation at hand, but everything is fine.
Speaker 3: Everything is fine. I mean, do we have some damage. Yes.
Speaker 3: Are there some shredded lilac trees? Absolutely are.
Speaker 2: There's some trees that have a lot of limbs missing
Speaker 2: and they look like someone put them in a blender.
Speaker 3: Sure, But is the magic still here? I think so?
Speaker 2: Is it still going to be some of the greatest
Speaker 2: sunsets and sunrises you've ever seen. Absolutely, are you going
Speaker 2: to get a great meal here? None of that has changed.
Speaker 2: None of it will change, you know.
Speaker 3: I was last night. I was at the show.
Speaker 2: The mclaland Arts Council Community Theater puts on a show,
Speaker 2: several shows it was a year. Last night they did
Speaker 2: Mama Mia.
Speaker 3: Live Production, live orchestra.
Speaker 2: I mean there must have been thirty different actors and
Speaker 2: eleven eleven musicians in the pit.
Speaker 3: These are all locals.
Speaker 2: These are people who live here and they put this
Speaker 2: show on, and it kind of occurred to me, you know,
Speaker 2: we're we're all kind of in show business here on
Speaker 2: Macin Island.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The reason I thought that was they were they were
Speaker 2: a little concerned, I guess because you know, they missed
Speaker 2: four practices because of the storm when you know, he
Speaker 2: couldn't get down the roads, so they didn't they weren't
Speaker 2: able to rehearse, and I heard some folks were worried that,
Speaker 2: you know, they weren't quite where they wanted to be.
Speaker 2: And I kind of blew it off and I said,
Speaker 2: that's mac And Island. We always performed to a t
Speaker 2: we always get it together. We always have for since
Speaker 2: tourism season started one hundred and fifty odd years ago,
Speaker 2: or one hundred and sixty since folks first started coming
Speaker 2: here to see what we have. So we're all kind
Speaker 2: of in show business, I guess, and obviously I'm a
Speaker 2: behind the scenes guy with the fire department.
Speaker 3: And but the folks in that show, they killed it.
Speaker 2: It was It was absolutely amazing last night, and it
Speaker 2: was kind of a testament to what we'd been through.
Speaker 2: And it was fun to sing along with them when
Speaker 2: they're on stage, and you know, to think that just
Speaker 2: two weeks ago, yeah, you couldn't even get down the
Speaker 2: road and you were worried about getting hit by a tree.
Speaker 2: And here we are, right where we really need to
Speaker 2: be by the middle of April, and we're sure looking
Speaker 2: forward to another successful season. We're sure looking forward to
Speaker 2: welcoming you all back. In fact, we can't wait to
Speaker 2: see you. This has been a mini episode of the
Speaker 2: mc and Island Moments podcast. I'm Jason Saint One from
Speaker 2: MCIN Island. This one sponsored by our good friends at
Speaker 2: the Mustang Lounge, and I can't say enough about how
Speaker 2: they really stepped up and delivered, not only taking care
Speaker 2: of their customers but getting those catered meals out to
Speaker 2: the Guard. They were wonderful. Lindsay, Darcy, you guys just
Speaker 2: killed it. Can't appreciate you enough. But everyone else we're
Speaker 2: looking forward to welcoming you back to mcin Island. Good day.
Speaker 5: We are.
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