Reaper in Kalamazoo MI flood

[Bobert540]

Who was on the yellow reaper on the news in Kalamazoo Mi??

https://www.google.com/amp/s/articl...sf/2018/02/jet_ski_kalamazoo_flood_street.amp

 

[theVetteman3]

A guy who lives in the area and has a nice collection of skis. He has started riding with our group in Portage and rides lake Michigan as well. Pretty cool dude, the SJ in that pic is also his. I believe that Reaper used to belong to Zach Bright, it's a sweet ski. I was able to ride it this past summer.

We have a pretty good group going now. Last time out I think we had 21 or 22 skis.

 

[Bobert540]

I actually found out who it was. Def a cool dude. I will have to make a trip south this summer to meet you all. I usually ride locally or out of Port Sheldon.

 

[37]

The guy in the red truck is clearly doing it wrong.

 

[Brently22]

Hey guys, sorry I'm late to the party! Thanks for the kind words, definitely looking forward to shredding with you guys sometime this summer! Pretty crazy the response that we had from it, some of you may already know about it or saw it on Barstool Sports instagram, or other various jet ski pages on instagram. I was told that it made it on the news as far away as Florida and locally it had a few million views on various Facebook videos... unbelievable! Got some road rash on both skis (both mine, though I was only responsible for beaching the Reaper pretty hard at one point on the road, while my buddy got the best of my SJ which was pretty pristine other than typical trailer bunk rash.. bummer!

Here's a few more pictures for those whom might be interested, as well as a few more news links which have some video... maybe someday I'll get around to uploading to Youtube and posting a link, but who knows.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...o-jet-skis-flood-streets-kalamazoo/371743002/

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2018/02/jet_ski_kalamazoo_flood_street.html

http://fox17online.com/2018/02/24/k...ving-fun-with-the-record-floods-in-kalamazoo/

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...rs-taking-to-michigan-flood-waters-goes-viral

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/0...-plays-host-to-kayaks-jet-skis/8891519577234/

Unfortunately, it turns out that the owner of one of the submerged cars died in the flood somehow, and his body floated up at a nearby business the day after we were there, so our thoughts are with him and his family!

http://wwmt.com/news/local/police-male-body-found-in-floodwaters-on-riverview-drive


Finally, here's the viral video that had 2.3million views on Facebook, too bad it is terrible quality, shaky and filmed vertically, but she is the reason we got the attention we did so we are certainly grateful for that!

 

[Brently22]

Some additional pictures

 

[Chase Musetti]

Dang... Kinda eerie knowing there was a body in the car you guys were riding next to


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[Fireman73]

Yeah thats creepy even for brent ..