Western Minnesota doesn't have the problems that the northwest portion of the state does. But during our weekend trip to visit Alan's Dad, we found some of the 4" of rain seeping into the basement at the farm and spent a few hours rolling up carpeting and putting furniture up on 2"x4"s.
Driving back to the Cities on Monday, we saw many spontaneous lakes and rivers, adding exponentially to Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. We're experiencing what Alan calls the perfect storm of spring flooding: warmer than average temperatures, frozen ground, snow melt, rain. End result is much sandbagging in the flood plain of the Red River of the North and lots of flooded fields in the plains of western Minnesota. So odd to see ducks, geese, tundra swans bobbing around in whitecaps and corn stalks.
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