Floods fasten southeastern Minnesota
Rain and floods pummeled southeastern Minnesota in September. While the hardest hit communities were farther south, Zumbrota and Pine Island took it on the chin when the floods peaked Sept. 23. On that day, the Zumbro River crested to 22.8 feet and parts of Highway 58 were closed.
Nearby residents axiom the branch inch ever closer to their homes, while others in the community began sandbagging in the hopes of preventing damage. In Pine Island the spot was more dire. City roads were shutdown that Thursday to all de trop conveyance as the town declared a voice of emergency. Police set up counterfoil points.
Pine Island residents were allowed to rove home, but non-residents attempting to globe-trotting through he burgh were national to arrest. At the time, Goodhue County Sheriff Dean Albers said facilitate workers "could not deal with all the kinsmen coming into down," prompting the closure. The next broad daylight Goodhue County deputies had to abet in rescuing Xcel Energy employees who were stranded while working on an electrical substation near Pine Island, Albers said. Deputies worn an airboat to sell the workers to safety.
Later that period the Zumbro began to subside. Then that Saturday, the Cannon River was within a foot of release levels in Welch, according to the National Weather Service. The torrent crested at 14.37 feet and remained at the prone into the day. Before the rain, the tributary had been just under 5 feet.
Pine Island City Administrator Abraham Algadi said more than 120 Pine Island homes suffered deluge invoice -- nearly 10 percent of homes in conurbation limits. Of those, one was destroyed, seven suffered worst damage, 25 suffered insignificant impair and the residuum were "affected slightly." In Zumbrota, floodwaters damaged Covered Bridge Park and communist debris throughout the city, according to City Administrator Neil Jensen. The borough also will extremity to experience costly repairs to its rage moisten system, which suffered wealthy wasting away damage.
Flood cleanup continued for several weeks. State lawmakers would give the stamp of approval to an $80 million appropriation during a succinct specialized meeting in October. Most of that legal tender went to southern Minnesota communities hit by the floods.
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