Above, Mackinac Bridge Webcam from the north side, looking south over the Straits of Mackinac and the bridge.
If you are not familiar with the Upper Great Lakes, this might not have the emotional freight that it carries for those of us who have grown up around the world’s largest bodies of fresh water.
The Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan’s lower peninsula to the sparsely populated wilderness of the north, is generally considered the gateway to God’s country, and a place where historically, a high pressure system blowing from the northwest is as fresh as breeze as one could imagine, coming off the Canadian boreal forests and perhaps a few hundred miles of pristine Lake Superior.
Heartbreaking does not even begin to describe the emotion.
Below, view from the south approach to the Bridge.
Below, clear day view of the Straits and Bridge, from the south, compared to today.
Below, Fox Weather reporting on smoke.