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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Yucatan Is Flooding

There isn’t going to be a lot of text for this, I took these pictures shortly after 5:00 AM. Large amounts of rain has produced flooding and I need to go check on things again soon. Houston County in Minnesota is not a safe place to travel right now and people need to stay at home or seek higher ground if needed.

UPDATED 6:30 PM

I’m copying this from the National Weather Service storm report because links move around when they update. Suffice it to say that things are not good:


PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
407 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0405 PM     FLASH FLOOD      HOUSTON                 43.76N 91.57W
06/23/2013                   HOUSTON            MN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            STATE HIGHWAY 16 CLOSED 2 MILES EAST OF HOUSTON. STATE
            HIGHWAY 76 CLOSED BETWEEN CALEDONIA AND HOUSTON.
            PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE IS 2 MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE.
            STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED FOR COUNTY. 20 TOWNSHIP ROADS
            CLOSED. WIDESPREAD COUNTY ROADS CLOSED.

June 23 Flood 01June 23 Flood 02

Riceford Creek is over its banks, this is Creamery Drive at the intersection with County 4.

June 23 Flood 03June 23 Flood 04

Standing water is merging with the flooding near the intersection. Further North, the junction of Riceford Creek and the South Branch of the Root River is rising rapidly. Both are out of their banks. There is at least one mudslide near there.

June 23 Flood 05June 23 Flood 06

The South Branch of the Root is starting to fill the valley.

June 23 Flood 07

The 2000 flood did a lot of damage to this house and I’m concerned it may happen again.

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All the roads crossing the valley are flooded over and the rushing water is something to hear. The town hall is flooded.

June 23 Flood 10June 23 Flood 11

Heading south, the bridge between Yucatan and Black Hammer is flooded over on both sides. It was still rising when we left.

June 23 Flood 12June 23 Flood 13

This is a view from closer to home. In 2000, County 4 was flooded over where the water is in the field. It will probably happen again.

June 23 Flood 14

An actual view from home. It has gotten higher since I started editing the photos. I have a feeling more pictures will be taken today and tomorrow – more heavy rain is in the forecast.

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