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Published September 23, 2010, 12:00 AM

Gallery: Flooding in Southwest Minnesota

Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010.


Water swirls through a culvert near 230th Street outside Worthington after heavy rains from the past several days flooded the region. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)

  • Water swirls through a culvert near 230th Street outside Worthington after heavy rains from the past several days flooded the region. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Chelsea Thompson, Worthington (left) and Christy Nepp, Windom, canoe down flooded Ninth Avenue in Worthington Thursday morning. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Jenna Raaf, 16, of Pipestone, carries a sandbag to the pallet while helping out Thursday afternoon at Water Tower Park. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Jeff Moser uses a forklift to move the pallets of sandbags Thursday afternoon in Pipestone. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Community members fill sandbags Thursday afternoon at the Water Tower Park in Pipestone. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • The sign announcing the road closed is nearly under water on one of the flooded streets in Pipestone. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Pipestone Area senior Troy Mead, 17, of Pipestone, places a sandbag around a home in Pipestone Thursday afternoon as he and classmates pitch in to help stem the floods. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Water runs through the culverts and over the driveway at the John Widboom farm Thursday morning north of Worthington. (Brian Korthals/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010, drowning many backyards, such as this one in Worthington. (Aaron Vasecka/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Aaron Vasecka/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Aaron Vasecka/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Aaron Vasecka/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Aaron Vasecka/Daily Globe)
  • The 600 block of Clary Street in Worthington suffered flooding Sept. 23, 2010. (Photo by Alex Ramos)
  • Ninth Avenue between Winifred and Clement became more of a canal than a street after flooding struck Worthington and other parts of southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010. (Photo by Alex Ramos)
  • Floodwater covered the corner of Third Street in Avoca, one of many locations to experience flooding Thursday. (Justine Wettschreck/Daily Globe)
  • Daily Globe photographer Brian Korthals snaps a photo of an electrical box covered by water in a field on the Widboom farm near Worthington. (Justine Wettschreck/Daily Globe)
  • Floods struck the southwest Minnesota region, including 190th Street off Nobles County 3, northeast of Worthington, shown on Sept. 23, 2010. (Samantha Casper/Daily Globe)
  • Floods struck the southwest Minnesota region, including 190th Street off Nobles County 3, northeast of Worthington, shown on Sept. 23, 2010. (Samantha Casper/Daily Globe)
  • Floods struck the southwest Minnesota region, including 190th Street off Nobles County 3, northeast of Worthington, shown on Sept. 23, 2010. (Samantha Casper/Daily Globe)
  • Floods struck the southwest Minnesota region, including 190th Street off Nobles County 3, northeast of Worthington, shown on Sept. 23, 2010. (Samantha Casper/Daily Globe)
  • Floods struck the southwest Minnesota region, including 190th Street off Nobles County 3, northeast of Worthington, shown on Sept. 23, 2010. (Samantha Casper/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010, including the area near Wirock, in Murray County, on Murray County 34. (Rob Muck/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010, including the area near Wirock, in Murray County, on Murray County 34. (Rob Muck/Daily Globe)
  • Floods swept over southwest Minnesota Sept. 23, 2010, including the area near Wirock, in Murray County, on Murray County 34. (Rob Muck/Daily Globe)