flooding

The National Weather Service has issued a worrisome forecast for areas of southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin that have been socked recently by torrential rains and damaging flooding.

It was ten years ago, this week, that southeastern Minnesota was hit by devastating flooding.

Another round of thunderstorms is expected across portions of the Upper Mississippi River Valley Friday afternoon through early Saturday morning. About 1-3 inches of rainfall is possible with perhaps some localized higher amounts. This expected heavy rainfall, coupled with saturated and some already flooded ground from heavy rainfall last night, could cause some flash flooding, issues, including r

A severe thunderstorm warning was issued earlier on Thursday morning for parts of Rice and Steele counties. No damage reports have been received so far from this storm. More heavy thunderstorms are moving through southeastern Minnesota. The National Weather Service has issued an urban and small stream flood advisory for poor drainage areas for southwestern Olmsted County in southeastern Minnesota

The Wednesday weather topic during Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness week is an event our area is all to familiar with: flooding. Two of the past three years we've experienced this type of weather locally. Nationally, floods claim nearly 200 lives each year and force 300,000 people from their homes...

More than $2.3 million in FEMA disaster assistance has been approved to help homeowners and renters in Rice, Steele, Waseca, Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Freeborn and Hennepin counties who were affected by the storms and flooding in September. The Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a news release today saying residents of those counties who have suffered loss or damage have until January 30 to re

The Federal Emergency Management Agency reminds us there is just over a week left to register for federal disaster aid if you suffered losses or damage in the September severe storms and flooding. The registration deadline is 10PM Monday, January 30...

Minnesota residents have just a couple of weeks left to register for federal disaster aid and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is urging eligible residents to apply as soon as possible. FEMA Media Relations Specialist Carmen Rodriguez will be on Friday's KDHL AM Minnesota program and says there has been some misinformation she would like to discuss...

Gov. Mark Dayton's office says a federal agency has reversed itself and approved aid for individuals and households in southern Minnesota hit by the heavy rains and flooding in September. Earlier this month, the governor appealed the original decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deny the individual assistance...

On Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency of FEMA denied individual assistance to individuals and households in our area that were seriously affected by heavy rainstorms and flooding on September 21 and 22. Gov. Mark Dayton has announced that he will formally appeal that decision...