Check out the weather in the Duluth area! We are all being flooded out. Entire area is closing down.

[jwirr]

My granddaughter took 4 hours to make what is usually a 1 and half hour trip home from work. And she had to drive through flood water to get there - last one through before they closed the last road down. We have had a lot of rain - especially the last couple of days. Not just rain but down pours. Supposed to keep up until tomorrow. On the bright side - we do not have to worry about forest fires.

[alfredo]

1. Texas and Colorado could use a bit of rain.

[jwirr]

2. Unfortunately it is not in our power to send it to you in the form you want it. BUT just wait a good

deal of it will be runoff into the rivers going south and it will be causing floods all the way to Texas.

[alfredo]

18. I live in Ky, so our situation is not as dire.

[Woody Woodpecker]

5. It's cloudy today, which should help contain the High Park and Springer fires here in Colorado

but expect another hot and dry weather tomorrow.

[hifiguy]

3. OMG. Stay safe.

I check out the Weather Channel every morning before heading for work and they said that Duluth could be in for flooding. Down here in the Twin Cities it has been ominous-looking and humid but apart from some thundershowers none of the predicted nastiness has come to pass. At least as yet.

[TBF]

4. Stay safe -

we are even getting some rain in Texas the past 2 days. We could use a lot more.

[MineralMan]

6. Uff da! I've been following the news.

Stay safe.

[jwirr]

7. I was crazy enough to go to the store for milk and bread this morning and could hardly see to

drive home. Fully admit that I was not thinking but it was not raining when I left. Am setting tight as of now. My grandson showed me pics of places in Duluth that are terrible. I feel sorry for the houses at the bottom of the hillsides that often have basements flooding - this will be much worse this time. Sump pumps are not working fast enough.

[Brickbat]

8. Duluth is under a state of emergency and the mayor will be requesting a presidential disaster area

declaration. I'm interested to see how the city recovers from this; it's time to pay the piper on that antiquated sewer system and roads.

[jwirr]

11. Absolutely on the sewere system. The flood area is over much of the Arrowhead region. Anywhere

there is a river it is flooded. There will be a lot of damage to homes, businesses, etc.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Please send some directly south of you. To Arkansas.

[magical thyme]

10. 11 barnyard animals drowned at your zoo last night

donkey, sheep and goats.

[jwirr]

12. Not surprising. That zoo is located in a low area. I wonder why they were not evacuated? They

should have been.

[Brickbat]

13. Not only that, the polar bear got flooded out of its enclosure, and a seal swam out of the zoo and

was found four blocks away.

[Auntie Bush]

15. What happened to the Polar Bear?

[Brickbat]

16. They tranquilized it and put it back.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Just incredible stories coming out of Duluth

I've never heard anything like it

[malaise]

17. Stay safe

[B Calm]

19. Seems to me the water would

just flow downhill into Lake Superior, but when I saw the evening news I couldn't believe it.

[Brickbat]

20. Well, that's what it did.

[Strelnikov_]

21. It did . . . with extreme prejudice

5-8" of water and 500 ft. of fall over a few miles = fucko lotta energy