|
South Central MN | Used to be a lot more farmland in the MN River Valley south of me, now a lot of the fields closer to the river are just growing willows and weeds. Too many flood events later in the spring and early summer to risk a crop.
Cities build in lower areas closer to a river, put up dikes/levees, so the water flow gets restricted and backs up further upstream. Some areas have more floodplain than others, big difference between the Red River Valley and the MN River Valley when you compare.
That said an event that drops 12"+ of rain in a day wasn't on the minds of most just a few years ago. Kind of hard to predict what is going to happen when that much water has to go somewhere. | |
|
Sat imagines of the flooding
