Gretchen Whitmer: “The lack of freezing this year is actually... I see alarm…”

“But you know, just by doing that, you can tell water can be an incredibly dangerous thing and it is invasive. And the problems are only getting worse because of how inundated we are. And The lack of freezing this year is actually... I see alarm bells... because nothing's freezing and that means that there's nowhere for all this water to go. that there's nowhere for all this water to go. As a skier, I'm not happy when I see golfers out in January. I agree that industry is something I worry about too.” (05:06–05:24)

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