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"Old stores like that, it's hard to replace them," David Hruska said. "Almost makes you cry when you see that," ...
One year ago, the Rapidan Dam partially collapsed near Mankato due to heavy rainfall and flooding from storms.
Nearly a year ago, flooding at the Rapidan Dam destroyed a family's home and shut down their long-time restaurant. Now, they're starting over in a new location.
It’s a typical weekday morning at The Dam Store Cafe. A bell rings next to a fresh plate of a hot serving of eggs Benedict.
One year later, a Blue Earth County community is still feeling the impacts following the collapse of the Rapidan Dam.
Rapidan Dam, an earth-and-concrete structure and electrical generating station, built in 1910, had begun to overflow. The past week of rainy days had brought as much precipitation as that part of ...
The Rapidan Dam near Mankato, Minn., is at risk of “imminent failure” after the flooding of the Blue Earth River, officials warned on June 24.
There are more than 2,500 dams in Virginia – many built to mill wheat or wood. One of them is at the center of a ...
Two former workers of the Rapidan Dam with 23 years of combined experience say last month's partial failure was not just an Act of God, insisting instead that the breach could have been prevented.
Flooding at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato led to the destruction of the Hruska family house and the Rapidan Dam Store. County officials Ryan Thilges and Eric Weller, along with MSU professor Phil ...
RAPIDAN — Imagine a six-story building, perched precariously, inching its way across a narrow bridge, a churning river below. In 1949, that’s exactly what happened at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato.