Way above the Rum River in Isanti sits a house. To keep it, owner Mike Longbehn was forced to buy flood insurance.
“Not only am I 300 feet from the water, I’m 40 feet above the water,” said Longbehn. He’s lived there ten years with no word of flood insurance, until one day when he opened his mail. “I got a letter from my mortgage company saying that I had to have
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The Minnesota Department of Natural resources says the spring thaw in the next few weeks will probably prompt some temporary road and trail closures in state forests.DNR Forestry Division manager Richard Peterson says the thaw leads to soft soils, which are particularly susceptible to damage. He expects the temporary closures will begin in the next couple of weeks.
He says generally all roads and trails in a state forest are closed at
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