MI governor Rick Snyder equates leaks in his vacation home with Detroit floods.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on flooding damage to homes, weather anxiety: 'I've been there myself'
DETROIT, MI -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday in an interview with a Detroit radio station that he feels his constituents' pain as they try to recover from historic rainfall and flooding that wreaked havoc in the metro area.
"I've been there myself," said Snyder, an Ann Arbor area resident.
Snyder shared with WJR 760 AM radio host Frank Beckmann that his family residence had to deal with a leaky basement several times in the past due to weather.
And Snyder, nearing the end of his first term, added that his family's vacation home recently suffered roof damage due to high winds from a recent storm that knocked down trees.
"I've been through a lot of things like that, Frank," Snyder said. "We just recently had holes in our roof from storm damage to our lake house.
"We have a vacation place and we had a limb come down on the roof and had water running through the whole place; those experiences are not (inaudible) once."
Snyder's experience with flooding and other weather-related problems probably won't cheer up many Metro Detroiters trying to recover from Monday's mess that literally spilled over and seeped into Tuesday.
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