Water, water

[vakkotaur]

Record rainfalls.
Schools closed.
Livestock moving to the higher ground.
Some pastureland looking more like a lake.
Stocks of sandbags being depleted.
Roads closed due to flooding.
Stranded people being rescued by boat.

That's not from Ivan, or any other hurricane. That's what happened overnight and this morning in southeast Minnesota.

Fairmont was on the western edge of the affected area and, as far as I've seen and heard, managed to escape the worst of this. Austin and Albert Lea weren't so lucky and did get the worst of it.