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Jun. 23—Main Street in Albert Lea was closed to motorists Sunday afternoon as floodwaters continued to rise. Barricades were up on all sides of the flooding. City crews had put sandbags along ...
Jun. 22—Multiple heavy rains in the last few days have led to flooding in Albert Lea. Flooding has been reported throughout the community, including on Main Street near Morin Park, on East ...
Albert Lea Tribune, Minn. August 30, 2024 at 2:17 PM In a statement, the health system stated both the New Richland and Waterville clinic buildings experienced significant damage from the flooding ...
Portions of the Trans-Canada Highway were closed for 3 km (1.9 mi) due to flooding along the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta on June 18 and remained shut down until June 26. [29] At times, 30,000 to 40,000 acres (12,000 to 16,000 ha) of land around the highway was submerged by flood waters. [30]
Severe flooding in Iowa led to evacuations of many homes. In eastern Iowa along the Iowa River and Cedar River, flooding was expected to exceed that of the Flood of 1993. [16] Flooding also forced the closure of a number of roads throughout the state, reaching the point where travel was not advised in some parts of the state.
On April 24, 2011, the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Memphis, Tennessee, issued the first PDS flash flood watch to highlight the threat for widespread, significant and potentially life-threatening flash flooding due to repeated rounds of severe thunderstorms.
Several streets, trails and parks remain closed in Albert Lea. It may take days for flood waters to recede as stormwater drains through the local chain of lakes. Water levels in Fountain Lake have ...
Albert Lea, c. 1862 The city is named after Albert Lea Lake, which was named after Albert Miller Lea, a topographer with the United States Dragoons, who surveyed southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in 1835, including the current site of Albert Lea. [8] Captain Nathan Boone, a son of Daniel Boone, was the scout for Lea's unit.