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Minnesota's Rapidan Dam in 'imminent failure' after heavy flooding
Daily Mail ^ | 6/24/24 | Alex Hammer

Posted on 06/24/2024 3:35:32 PM PDT by Libloather

A dam in south central Minnesota failed Monday morning - leading to fears of flooding for at least 45,000 residents in the valley below.

Citizens in low-lying areas of the Minnesota River Valley have now been told to evacuate - as officials continue to monitor whether the Rapidan Dam will fully give in.

The 114-year-old dam on the Blue Earth River is about 90 miles southwest of Minneapolis. Aerial footage shows a house just a few feet away from the tributary being completely engulfed by the floodwaters.

It was later revealed an Xcel Energy substation located at the dam was actually washed away. It supplied power to some 600 customers, local law enforcement said.

Debris started accumulating there on Sunday following abnormally high levels of rainfall. It left the century old dam 'in imminent failure condition,' officials said.

By 10:36 am Monday, the river had eroded earth around the west side of the dam near the south side of Mankato to the point where water was sent cascading over the concrete, with accumulating flooding now putting the city of 45,140 at risk.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Outdoors; Weather
KEYWORDS: dam; flood; minnesota; rapidan
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

She lives in Mankato, and has family throughout the area. She thinks they will be ok, but we are urging her to have evacuation plans prepared.


21 posted on 06/24/2024 4:30:05 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Libloather

If the area to the right of the damn is earth and not bedrock it will fail. I hope it is bedrock.

In two lakes near me and they are big lakes, Stillhouse and Belton, the emergency spillway is several hundred yards wide and cut into the bedrock. In the last 35 years both have been utilized twice. The flow into the lake exceeded the capacity of the damns to release water and the lakes rose. Everything was okay as the emergency spillways worked as designed. On most occasions the Corp of engineers get it right. They did not in New Orleans and the Katrina Hurricane.


22 posted on 06/24/2024 4:30:25 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: cpdiii

23 posted on 06/24/2024 4:33:39 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Actually I just looked up her address, and yes, I think she’s in danger. Say some prayers. I’ve known her since I was 10. My best childhood friend.


24 posted on 06/24/2024 4:36:43 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Libloather

Little boy buttagig can go put his finger in it.


25 posted on 06/24/2024 4:47:43 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ok, she’s north of the dam, so I hope that’s helpful. She says it it stressful though. Her parents live near her and they are in their early 90’s.


26 posted on 06/24/2024 4:50:08 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

I hope your friend and her family come through OK. I always take an interest in any mention of Mankato, since my father was from there. It’s not impossible that your friend and I are distantly related, as I still have some cousins and such in that part of the world.


27 posted on 06/24/2024 4:52:38 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: rarestia

I am very disappointed in you! You forgot that we all know our pronouns now.


28 posted on 06/24/2024 4:56:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Track9

“Little boy buttagig can go put his finger in it.”

The last time he tried putting his finger in a dike he got the crap beat out of him.


29 posted on 06/24/2024 5:12:32 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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To: Bratch

Looks like it already has failed.


30 posted on 06/24/2024 5:16:22 PM PDT by OKSooner (Trump, the first Punk President.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Both of her parents are from there, and her husband’s family is from somewhere up there, too. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. She has a LARGE family.

We went to grade school in Florida together. I spent nearly every day at her house after school in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. We would walk home from school to her house, and either my mom would pick me up there or at the library, which was just another few blocks from her house, and in between our homes. Her family would go to Elysian every summer to have their time back with their family, at the old one-room schoolhouse turned home that her father attended to as a kid.

We have been friends since then, and still see each other at least once a year, though we are still fairly far apart. Two other grade schools friends make us a group of 4. I don’t know anyone our age who has 3 friends from childhood that they’re still in touch with, and make it a point to see each other annually, if not more frequently, when the four of us live so far apart. Special bond. We are family to each other.


31 posted on 06/24/2024 5:24:14 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

That’s really nice. One of my brothers still has a friend from grade school, but I lost track of everyone from then a long time ago.


32 posted on 06/24/2024 5:29:58 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Nik Naym

And ended up wearing fake boobs. It’s some kind of weird Stockholm syndrome.


33 posted on 06/24/2024 5:34:08 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Most of us do lose touch, for sure. We just happened to stay in touch through college, marriages, kids, etc. For a long while, it was yearly Christmas letters. But then we always wanted to see each other again in person, so maybe 15 years ago, the four of us made it a point to meet up, at the old schoolhouse that I’d always heard about, but had never been to. That was a great reunion. Ever since then, we’ve realized that we have something special. Our husbands are all good guys and get along, and let us giggle without bothering us. We are perpetually 12-13 years old when we see each other, but with wisdom now. ;)


34 posted on 06/24/2024 5:58:03 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Libloather
Brother Rapidroy:

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35 posted on 06/24/2024 6:05:44 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Libloather

I’ve got family and friends in the decimated areas of Iowa and SD. It’s absolutely horrible.
Pray for these people.


36 posted on 06/24/2024 7:48:16 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Was that the one where all the architect/designers/engineers were women?


37 posted on 06/24/2024 8:18:57 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: FamiliarFace
Ok, she’s north of the dam, so I hope that’s helpful.

IIRC that river runs north so she could be in danger.

38 posted on 06/24/2024 10:40:35 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Reynoldo
#37: "Was that the one where all the architect/designers/engineers were women?"

Yes it was. Women of various races too. A veritable cornucopia of DEI.

39 posted on 06/24/2024 10:44:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: rarestia

Didn’t Obama’s trillions for “shovel ready jobs” get rolled in to the baseline AND Chomo Joe was responsible for those same trillions?


40 posted on 06/24/2024 11:19:25 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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