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Heard you had some rainfall...








It could be worse.

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Those are awesome. It's crazy to see how developed Duluth was in 1909. In 30 years it went from being a dirt speck on a map to homes and homes and avenues and neighborhoods and churches and churches.

Our streets don't get jacked by the storms anymore, BTW--now we just get poop in the lake.


Thanks for the pictures. Wonder if my grandfather is in one of them. Sixth av did wash out once that I remember. I think it was in the late 60's or early 70's.


There was another street-ripping storm in 1972. I was living a couple blocks from 6th Ave. E. and it looked like a war zone. Somewhere, I have photos of that storm, too. I'll have to dig them up sometime.


There was another street-ripping storm in 1972. I was living a couple blocks from 6th Ave. E. which ended up looking like a war zone. Somewhere, I have photos of that storm, too. I'll have to dig them up sometime.


when i was growing up, my parents had one of those souvenir photo books of the '72 storm that i loved looking at.

for some reason this also reminds me of the tshirts that said "i survived the blizzard of '84!" or whatever it was. at the i thought they were stupid, but now i would kill for one. i wonder if they had that kind of merch back in '09.

greetings, btw. i've been reading the site off/on for a while. i'm an expat who now lives in chicago. ("hi starfire.")


July, 1909 | Seven billion gallons of water fall on the area in two days. Grass, trees, timbers, paving blocks, mud and debris are washed down Duluth’s hillside during the torrential rainfall. Two children drown after being swept out of their mother’s arms. Water fills one downtown store to a foot above the countertop before breaking through the plate glass front window.


1946 | Five inches of rain combines with intense winds. Trucks and cars are swept into the Lester River and carried downstream.


Aug. 20, 1972 | In just over two hours, nearly three inches of rain falls in the Central Hillside neighborhood. Furniture, telephone poles, bricks, lumber and mud are sent down the hill. President Richard Nixon declares the area a Federal Disaster. Damages total $18 million.


Sept. 19. 1972 | Just 30 days after a rainstorm floods the Central Hillside, a second storm dumps another 3.42 inches in eight hours. The storm causes two deaths. Nearly 100 graves are washed up. Damages exceed $22 million.


Sept. 19, 2007 | A few people get some water in their basements.


June 30, 1958 | An intense rainstorm washes out a segment of Skyline Parkway just west of Spirit Mt., and all but destroys Mission Creek road which connected Skyline Parkway with Jay Cooke State Park. The road has been forever closed to automobile traffic since then.


How very immature of you.


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