How is 35 North? I'm heading to Minneapolis tonight.
I was on it from Hwy 30 to 113th and it was fine. Traffic was picking back up to the regular speed.
How is 35 North? I'm heading to Minneapolis tonight.
Just got back from DM. I35 is completely open, but the northbound lanes are backed up, due to accidents, by the HWY 30 exit.
While it's bad, this is nothing compared to 1993...that was just plain awful.
I haven't been around a lot of floods, so I have a question.
How long does it usually take for the waters to recede, to almost normal, that are of this magnitude?
The waters are receding already. This wasn't an extremely huge flood.
However, it is supposed to rain every day next week, so they may return.
This isn't an extremely huge flood??? Water reached its second highest level ever and its wasn't that huge of a flood?? Ask the owners of the businesses hit... I doubt they will say, "mmmm it wasn't that huge of a flood, I mean the water got extremely high then fell fast. It only flooded my business for 2 hours so I should be able to vaccuum it all out..."
Seriously..... its not huge cause the water is already going down?? How long did you expect it to stay there??? A couple months or what? This is normal for any flood. I'm sure if it rains as much as its forecasted then there will be more flooding.
In terms of overall business damage and how long it lasted, no it's not.
There have been more damaging floods than this one. I'm not saying it hasn't been big, but Ames is a lot more prepared this time around.
On a very good source, I'm hearing that the owners of O'Malley & MeGees are tired of recovering from the flooding time and time again. They've been putting up with the Skunk for almost 30 years now.
Looks like they are closing their doors for good.
Sad, I had a lot of good memories there.
It doesn't matter if water entered 3 seconds or 1 day. Damage is done.... Specially carpet and stuff like that. Plus, some of these businesses will be without power for a day or two... Things don't stay fresh forever.
Prepared??? I don't think anyone was prepared for how fast it came up today. Otherwise you would of seen every business with sandbags. Funny thing... I didn't see that when I drove through town when they closed Duff...
Also, part of the reason it doesn't hurt as much as it did in the past is because of all the precautionary work they did following the 93 floods including redoing roads and building up levees