A fast thaw has Minnesota river towns on alert this spring
CARVER, Minn. (FOX 9) - Only two-and-a-half weeks ago, high temperatures were still below zero in the Minnesota area, but now we are close to 50.
A quick thaw is usually never good news for flood forecasts, but this year, even that outlook is unusual. That rapid melt is grabbing some attention.
David Engler has lived in Carver, a town at the mercy of the Minnesota River, all his life. He remembers helping sand bag while in high school more than 50 years ago when the river took over the town.
In 1965, he recalls, the river flooded the entire bottom part of the town.