Safety Alert Minnesota and Wisconsin

[angeli]

I'm not sure where this should go, however it appeared on a Facebook truck camping page last night, and may be important to some of the dwellers and travelers here.

Here is the post:
Shared from another group 

EMERGENCY SITUATION: Conditions are deteriorating rapidly. We are trying to get the word out from the Brainerd Lakes region, through east central Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin. 

We are asking for your help in getting word out to campgrounds, resorts, anyone near rivers or streams, etc. In short, if you are in and around the Brainerd Lakes area, Aitkin County, Pine County, and much of northwestern Wisconsin, we are expecting potentially catastrophic flooding. The Mississippi River at Aitkin is expected to see a huge surge in water overnight, and is expected to reach 17.9 feet by daybreak. At 18 feet, water will inundate the Aitkin sewage plant. 

We don't ask this often, but please, share this post  and communicate with anyone living in those areas. Much more rain is on the way, and we have seen 6 to 8 inches of rain in spots in these areas. This is potentially a many decade flood. 

PLEASE SHARE! And do NOT drive across those roads overnight.

Be careful all.

 

[Wanderer]

If I was traveling, this info is GOLD....I once went with Mom and uncle and wife to Little Rock. On the way there, we went through some ankle deep water which scared uncle's wife. But we got through and hit a diner, I asked the waitress about the water she said they'd had 25 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, Clear lake now was 4 times it's normal size and muddy as a puddle.....

 

[wayne49]

Flood Warning

Aitkin
Crow Wing
Kanabec
Kittson
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Pine

Flood Warning
MNC035-097-131442-
/O.NEW.KDLH.FL.W.0005.160713T0900Z-000000T0000Z/
/FTRM5.2.ER.160713T0900Z.160715T1800Z.000000T0000Z.UU/
942 AM CDT TUE JUL 12 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR FORT RIPLEY.
* FROM LATE TONIGHT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
* AT 7:00 AM TUESDAY THE STAGE WAS 8.7 FEET.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 10.0 FEET.
* FORECAST...RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE BY EARLY TOMORROW AND CONTINUE TO
RISE TO NEAR 13.0 FEET BY FRIDAY EARLY AFTERNOON.
* AT 12.0 FEET...THE BOAT LANDING AND PARKING LOT AT THE PUBLIC
ACCESS ARE UNDER WATER..
THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF 14.3 FEET ON MAR 23 1966.

 

[highdesertranger]

this is why we all need a NOAA weather alert radio. it doesn't work everywhere, but they are fairly cheap and work in most places. highdesertranger