Rainfall Totals in the area?

[Matt C]

So far I am at 4.98" at Kelly Lake. (From wed afternoon to 6am Thursday) My dock is 1/2 under water. More rain today.

Anyone else?

[Jack Peterson]

all i know is i'm glad i pulled my 14.5 foot fishing boat out of the lake. with no bilge pump, that would've sucked.

[flipper]

7.5 inches so far SW Waseca County. More coming...

[Thulie]

6.25" in downtown Owatonna by my rain gauge so far. The Morehouse Dam on Bridge Street is completely under water.

[james_walleye]

over 4" in Rochester, over 6" just north of Roch at Zumbro Falls.

[flipper]

Now 8.9 inches in SW Waseca County.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Sheesh! Stay dry, fellas.

[RebelSS]

5" in my gauge at Rochester.

[norwall]

4in in Belle Plaine

[Shane683]

In Faribault County rainfall totals as of this morning ranged from 2" to 9.7".

[kerryd15]

as of 8am truman had a little over 10 inches, saw the school is closed and they used firetrucks to pump water out of the school

[pansK]

I have 10-12" of water in my basement..

[local laker]

Sorry to hear about any wet basements.i went thru that

in spring.For the finished ones i found out that if you really

get after drying it out with shop vac,box fans,& heat + 2 dehumidifiers,

you still have to rip up the carpet & toss the pad.it'll start to mold in

less than a week.I was able to save the carpet tho.Good luck home-owners.

[Friar_Tuck]

heres what owatonna's morehouse park looks like if any of y'all are familiar with it, straight river.

the dam area & walk bridge.

then this is mineral springs park here also, maple creek.

[Scott M]

Wow, I saw a picture of Morehouse on the weather channel.

I heard Le Sueur got 15-16 inches. Crocker's Creek, Whitewater Creek (Waterville), and the Cannon were FLOWING! The Minnesota will go higher than it did this spring.

[Friar_Tuck]

its up even higher now, owatonna is really tore up in many areas. alot of homes are toasted & had to be evacuated. never seen flooding like this here ever.

heres another view of morehouse park. the dam is under that bridge somewhere.

[Matt C]

Yes, not good at all. I am lucky to be on high ground, and do feel for those that are not. A very good friend of mine has been working 48 hours straight down in owatonna.

I have 2 kids here from a family in o-town that their house was flooded. They are getting a good nights sleep.

A big Shout out to my wife and her company for helping supply the OPD and OFD with food today.

[Morneau132]

Yes, not good at all. I am lucky to be on high ground, and do feel for those that are not. A very good friend of mine has been working 48 hours straight down in owatonna.

I have 2 kids here from a family in o-town that their house was flooded. They are getting a good nights sleep.

A big Shout out to my wife and her company for helping supply the OPD and OFD with food today.

U the man Bunt!

[PurpleFloyd]

We had in the neighborhood of 12". The sump pump did it's job and I left for work Thursday feeling pretty confident we would be fine but 1/2 hour after I got to work my wife called and said the sewer was backing up through a shower and the floor drains. We got all of the carpet ripped out and got fans and dehumidifiers going now and hopefully we can get it put back together so the daughter can have her room back.

[Rippinlip]

Ended up just over the 7" mark in Dundas. Never seen the Cannon River flow like this, my Mom & Dad always told me about the 1965 flood, just heard this is almost like it.

[MegaHawk]

lake Tetonka is a sad sight! almost all the docks r under the water! a few floatin away pontoons here n there like Lil jeff n big jeff, also heard of a few on tetonka.

[Jig Master]

jefferson didn't have any pontoons floating away. you're exaggerating

[MegaHawk]

jefferson didn't have any pontoons floating away. you're exaggerating

ok let me clarify, there was 3 pontoons floatin around or beached already on lil jeff as of thursday night. Big Jeff thursday night had 2 bigger aluminum fishing boats off of thier lifts.(not pontoons)(sorry for the confusion jigmaster) andd my buddy's buddy had his pontoon float away on tetonka.

Is that BETTER?

[luckycrank]

tell that to the guy on shattucks point on cannon lake has a hole about 2X4 in one of the toons on his I actuallly got to drive the boat right over the top of one submerged dock on tetonka

[Jig Master]

ok let me clarify, there was 3 pontoons floatin around or beached already on lil jeff

I fished there on monday and didn't see any pontoons floating around the lake. Beached is a different story. Jefferson chain came up about a foot. It'll be good for the lake in the long run. No state of emergency there. The Cannon and Tetonka of course are a different ball game.

[blue_healer_guy]

Just checkin the docks I have to get out yet on tetonka, I would say the lake is up at least 2 ft. Hawkeye?

[Matt C]

Just checkin the docks I have to get out yet on tetonka, I would say the lake is up at least 2 ft. Hawkeye?

that should be bout normal though?

[blue_healer_guy]

I wouldnt say it normal, streets in town were under water.

[hawkeye43]

For this time of year its to high. We will have alot of shore line that will get pushed up this winter with high water and the ice pushing the banks. The water hasn't been this high since the spring of 2003 and the summer of 1997

With the high water, I hope boats would please slow down. If not to help the shoreline, so they can see the logs, trees, landscape timbers and all the other junk thats floating around out there. I have seen one boat hit a log that it put a good size hole in the boat, that ended their day fast.

[Jig Master]

Has the lake (Tetonka) come down any from where it was a week ago?