Waterville battles largest flooding event in its history

City administrators say 1,000 volunteers have already filled and distributed 60,000 sandbags, and there have been talks about bringing in the National Guard.
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  • @xTracii
    @xTracii15 күн бұрын

    It's 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 waterville now.

  • @xTracii

    @xTracii

    15 күн бұрын

    But actually I hope they are doing okay

  • @browngreen933

    @browngreen933

    15 күн бұрын

    Underwaterville actually. I also hope they pull through okay. Floods are no joke.

  • @TonicofSonic
    @TonicofSonic15 күн бұрын

    "I didn't move to waterville to deal with this kinda thing.' - residents

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen93315 күн бұрын

    Whoever named the place, knew their stuff. 😢

  • @jamesellis2784

    @jamesellis2784

    14 күн бұрын

    I’m melting .I’m melting .

  • @karifredrikson-lr1mm
    @karifredrikson-lr1mm14 күн бұрын

    My thoughts & Prayers from former Midwesterner. Tragic to see your homes,Towns being devastated.

  • @ravenm6443
    @ravenm644314 күн бұрын

    Waterville certainly lived up to its name 😨 Hope everyone stays safe and can recover. What an insane situation!

  • @ahveamstad2480
    @ahveamstad248015 күн бұрын

    Imagine that. Flooding in minnesota, the "land of 10,000 lakes."

  • @timRosco1760

    @timRosco1760

    12 күн бұрын

    ❤😂

  • @lightdancer2251
    @lightdancer225113 күн бұрын

    So awful for these people..hope they all recover their lives again..

  • @sl4983
    @sl498316 күн бұрын

    It's a "fluid situation"? He seriously made that pun?

  • @PsychoThirteen

    @PsychoThirteen

    15 күн бұрын

    He was quoting "city leaders", but still... what you said.

  • @SirNic4180

    @SirNic4180

    15 күн бұрын

    It's just water under the bridge 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. You better start using those bootstraps I keep hearing about😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @bradley-eblesisor

    @bradley-eblesisor

    10 күн бұрын

    Seems pretty disrespectful.

  • @mexhapatiartesanceramica7865
    @mexhapatiartesanceramica786511 күн бұрын

    Former resident of Stillwater Minnesota writing to you from the central highlands of mexico. It's raining and flooding here too, like never before...practically the entire country.

  • @Amir_Nassir
    @Amir_Nassir16 күн бұрын

    wow what a nightmare. Sorry for these people

  • @sl4983

    @sl4983

    16 күн бұрын

    It's engineered weather. Weather warfare

  • @Amir_Nassir

    @Amir_Nassir

    13 күн бұрын

    @@sl4983 yes, it's HAARP for sure

  • @JeffWelsh-pc6kw
    @JeffWelsh-pc6kw15 күн бұрын

    Sad for the home owners ...pray for you all .

  • @BearBear1959
    @BearBear195916 күн бұрын

    National guard is on its way.

  • @AllThingsConsidered333
    @AllThingsConsidered33315 күн бұрын

    When I see things like this, all I think is how much mold will be growing in those homes & businesses… like when we had flooding here nearly every other year for a decade.. people drain the water and move back in… Indoor molds kill. And you don’t even know what’s happening, what’s causing it, or how serious it really is. It really was only since hurricanes Katrina & Sandy that the general population started to understand the health impacts of indoor molds. It makes me cringe. My daughter & I had our health severely damaged from indoor molds at 2 different homes that had water damage that we didn’t know about until it was too late. There was very little info available and no help. We are still trying to recover more than a decade later.

  • @derekmason7507

    @derekmason7507

    15 күн бұрын

    I live in that area maybe 20 minutes away and thats all i can think about seeing all this flooding is how much mold people are going to have and not tale it seriously… its a living Hell somtimes Being sick from mold exposure and micotoxins

  • @mollypaintscows

    @mollypaintscows

    15 күн бұрын

    Mold was my first thought. Indoor mold is so dangerous, a silent killer.

  • @user-tr4uo2fb4h
    @user-tr4uo2fb4h16 күн бұрын

    well, it's name IS WATERVILLE - it's kind of to be expected ,no?

  • @sl4983

    @sl4983

    15 күн бұрын

    That didn't go past the weather handlers

  • @vne5195

    @vne5195

    14 күн бұрын

    They changed the name to Waterville in response to global warming. It's all caused by global warming.

  • @max7143
    @max714314 күн бұрын

    Guaranteed this flood has knowing happened decades before this town was built.

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d12 күн бұрын

    We all need to pray for God's mercy on the world!

  • @leticiavazquez9546
    @leticiavazquez954615 күн бұрын

    I'm so sorry for your pain, prayers for all.

  • @user-mn4vh6xu5t
    @user-mn4vh6xu5t13 күн бұрын

    I feel for these people we have been thru it. 😢

  • @dizziechef9502
    @dizziechef950212 күн бұрын

    I’m so sorry for these folks. I went through this with IAN hurricane so I understand the heart feelings of these folks. I pray and hope your lives are spared and you will find a way to endure and rebuild. My heart breaks for you 💔. Fla is in hurricane season now so we understand these folks feelings.

  • @Phoenix-J81
    @Phoenix-J8115 күн бұрын

    Buckle up.

  • @InvisibleEnergy-sy3ud
    @InvisibleEnergy-sy3ud15 күн бұрын

    Leave folks go to higher ground .stay safe

  • @Wowsers101
    @Wowsers10116 күн бұрын

    Wow so much water!

  • @sl4983

    @sl4983

    16 күн бұрын

    It's intentional engineered weather. Weather warfare

  • @xTracii

    @xTracii

    15 күн бұрын

    The pfp matches the comment 😂

  • @thefamilitchichannel1341
    @thefamilitchichannel13416 күн бұрын

    I knew I couldn't be the only one hearing the irony in this city's name...

  • @dsonnek7781
    @dsonnek778115 күн бұрын

    Waterville is connected to the Cannon River system that feeds east. The Cannon Lake is at a all time high, flooding houses in some areas. It flows into Wells lake that goes into the city of Faribault, it has over flown near the dam and the Cannon River is flooding areas and roads thru the city.

  • @rodentcafeteria
    @rodentcafeteria15 күн бұрын

    The town being "nestled between two lakes" makes it sound so charming.

  • @frankblangeard8865

    @frankblangeard8865

    15 күн бұрын

    Until the water in the lakes rises.

  • @hoosierdaddy8002

    @hoosierdaddy8002

    15 күн бұрын

    Hence Waterville.

  • @daviddamelio1671

    @daviddamelio1671

    15 күн бұрын

    Why on earth would anyone live there???

  • @uberdang830

    @uberdang830

    15 күн бұрын

    If you live in a flood plane it's going to flood at some point.

  • @packers12to80

    @packers12to80

    15 күн бұрын

    ​@daviddamelio1671 I live in florida....ppl live where the live for hundreds of reasons. I've been thru many hurricanes . There really isn't anywhere in the US u can escape mother nature. From frozen to hot to hurricanes to tornadoes.....just what it is

  • @timRosco1760
    @timRosco176012 күн бұрын

    Never move to a place called 'Waterville ' and expect it to be dry!😅😅😅😊

  • @Castaway.....
    @Castaway.....12 күн бұрын

    So so sorry for everyones agony

  • @user-jk3ht5hn3m
    @user-jk3ht5hn3m13 күн бұрын

    Why blame Mother Nature? Y’all know who’s to blame you just can’t admit it!

  • @mp412cutube
    @mp412cutube15 күн бұрын

    "Waterville" Irony at it's worst. I believe this town was flooded out maybe 10 years ago?

  • @lissalea8014

    @lissalea8014

    15 күн бұрын

    It floods every year, it’s just a matter of when and how much

  • @tessmoore3762

    @tessmoore3762

    14 күн бұрын

    About every 10 years this part of Minnesota has major flooding. They have flooding most years, but major flooding about every 10 years.

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Climbs the trees? ? Ladders helmets climbs the roofs? ? Helicopters rescues? ?

  • @andreweddy86
    @andreweddy8612 күн бұрын

    The town is now hear by called Moldville

  • @lissalea8014
    @lissalea801415 күн бұрын

    Oh what a disaster, is there anything we as a community can do to help?

  • @Theortricesiii
    @Theortricesiii15 күн бұрын

    The national guard should've been called days ago.

  • @BadWolf1958

    @BadWolf1958

    15 күн бұрын

    The national guard should have been called when Minneapolis was burning.

  • @Sabios33

    @Sabios33

    15 күн бұрын

    @@BadWolf1958I saw the national guard patrolling the streets

  • @lissalea8014

    @lissalea8014

    15 күн бұрын

    @@BadWolf1958dude, shut the hell up. They were called. Get the hell over it.

  • @lukewarme9121

    @lukewarme9121

    15 күн бұрын

    The Red Bulls are in the Middle East right now!

  • @bronsonhonea5774
    @bronsonhonea577410 күн бұрын

    National Guard should have been there awhile ago.

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Handtrucks. Bags of sands.

  • @max7143
    @max714314 күн бұрын

    Note to self, don’t live anywhere named Waterville.

  • @WasThatWong
    @WasThatWong15 күн бұрын

    So why do they call it Waterville?

  • @smvanderlouw
    @smvanderlouw15 күн бұрын

    Heartbreaking

  • @contactpq
    @contactpq14 күн бұрын

    Living up to the name

  • @rexwall2000
    @rexwall200010 күн бұрын

    You live in a town called Waterville. What did you expect?

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Boats. Canoes. Sails boats.

  • @gailarnold2660
    @gailarnold266015 күн бұрын

    I would invest in a flood barrier tube if I lived in an area like this.

  • @jj-eo7bj
    @jj-eo7bj15 күн бұрын

    Hard times make strong people they will do fine good strong people

  • @Strawman333
    @Strawman33315 күн бұрын

    🙏🏼

  • @zenfan1098
    @zenfan109816 күн бұрын

    Waterville, hmmmm

  • @sl4983

    @sl4983

    16 күн бұрын

    Exactly. It's engineered weather. Weather warfare

  • @angeloflexin3
    @angeloflexin32 күн бұрын

    Is it still like that

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Lifes jackets. Wood floats.

  • @shakirabells6955
    @shakirabells695515 күн бұрын

    Where so dry in my place right now we having heat wave thiers a rain forcast but never rain yet gosh this one is to much

  • @EngineeredTheMind
    @EngineeredTheMind16 күн бұрын

    How many miles does Babs travel each week?

  • @HanifBarnwell

    @HanifBarnwell

    16 күн бұрын

    😂 he’s been skating on thin ice for a while, he’s taking any assignment to get off his PIP. 😂

  • @ryanwall1780

    @ryanwall1780

    15 күн бұрын

    ​@@HanifBarnwell Oh man, I need to know more. What's up with Babs?

  • @HanifBarnwell

    @HanifBarnwell

    15 күн бұрын

    @@ryanwall1780 just a bad joke, we all know Babs is a Fox9 team player!

  • @ryanwall1780

    @ryanwall1780

    15 күн бұрын

    @@HanifBarnwell Man, hell yeah!

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Buckets. Repeats. Drainages the waters.

  • @reneehouser2925
    @reneehouser292515 күн бұрын

    Literally

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Digs ditches with shovels pickaxes to drainages the waters to the ocean!!!

  • @JohnWhitlow-pp6xk
    @JohnWhitlow-pp6xk14 күн бұрын

    Waterville flooding imagine that...

  • @baphbaph6628
    @baphbaph662815 күн бұрын

    No. I will not stop the rain dance.

  • @liberty-matrix
    @liberty-matrix15 күн бұрын

    Flooding in a town called Waterville!

  • @MichaelfYoung-ec7bw
    @MichaelfYoung-ec7bw15 күн бұрын

    Get on your knees and Pray everyday for the rest of your Life

  • @aaronmaloney8
    @aaronmaloney815 күн бұрын

    1,700 humans & a few crocodiles

  • @jj-eo7bj
    @jj-eo7bj15 күн бұрын

    Too much rain

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Wheelsbarrows. Flatbeds trucks.

  • @trustingjesus528
    @trustingjesus52815 күн бұрын

    Blessinges, The Watteres, came-downe...✝️🕊️

  • @sl4983
    @sl498316 күн бұрын

    Minnesota?

  • @xTracii

    @xTracii

    15 күн бұрын

    Yes

  • @DerekHyche
    @DerekHyche15 күн бұрын

    I would take what is left of my house drag it to dry land in pieces and build an ark. 😂

  • @KingMrBigE
    @KingMrBigE14 күн бұрын

    Well its name isnt "Dryville" after all

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Pipes. Pumps.

  • @maewebster9377
    @maewebster937715 күн бұрын

    safe until you see that minnow in your glass

  • @TheRepublicJedi41
    @TheRepublicJedi4116 күн бұрын

    I grew up here

  • @johnmcclendon2571

    @johnmcclendon2571

    14 күн бұрын

    As a little minnow?😂

  • @ducngo1966
    @ducngo196616 күн бұрын

    Helicopters. Searches and rescues? ?

  • @lusendermurray1224
    @lusendermurray122415 күн бұрын

    😊..

  • @maewebster9377
    @maewebster937715 күн бұрын

    could be worse…ducks and carp versus gators and snakes

  • @peachfuds
    @peachfuds15 күн бұрын

    The Waterville name didn't age well.

  • @jimmiller1686
    @jimmiller168615 күн бұрын

    if you live between two lakes you might want to expect an occasional flood.

  • @lissalea8014

    @lissalea8014

    15 күн бұрын

    No shit, they probably plan for it weeks ahead of time

  • @Ryan5oh7

    @Ryan5oh7

    14 күн бұрын

    Actually no. This is like once in a century flooding. We don't get bad flooding around here ever

  • @OnlyTheBestNO
    @OnlyTheBestNO14 күн бұрын

    waterville u say

  • @vne5195
    @vne519514 күн бұрын

    "Waterville" is flooding?

  • @bugzpudding
    @bugzpudding15 күн бұрын

    water is resistant:(

  • @CattttMD
    @CattttMD10 күн бұрын

    Irony alert.

  • @ducngo1966
    @ducngo196616 күн бұрын

    Lifes jackets. Run uphill. Walk uphill. Roll uphill. Rows boats uphill.

  • @sl4983

    @sl4983

    16 күн бұрын

    It's engineered weather. Weather warfare. Haarp

  • @raymondsullivan7230
    @raymondsullivan723015 күн бұрын

    Some real bad weather in Virginia and Maryland New Jersey Delaware New York in West Virginia they're on the way RPS 111

  • @InvisibleEnergy-sy3ud
    @InvisibleEnergy-sy3ud15 күн бұрын

    Need help up there joe

  • @kathleenscheidt9587

    @kathleenscheidt9587

    14 күн бұрын

    Keep voting against the reality of global warming. Get your paper towels out

  • @daophan3709
    @daophan37098 күн бұрын

    Truck car engine trailer a boulder and or rocks to repair the bags sand wall broken by water flood.

  • @user-pc3eb8gs5y
    @user-pc3eb8gs5y13 күн бұрын

    Gov. Dont care only about ukr.😮😢

  • @Boneshaker138
    @Boneshaker13815 күн бұрын

    Weed ,Ca

  • @AKSnowbat907
    @AKSnowbat90714 күн бұрын

    "...all they shall receive is the sign of Jonah..." The eclipse isn't the sign of Jonah, that was God. Jonah is remembered because of the whale... the sign of Jonah.. is water.

  • @Peachee1111
    @Peachee111114 күн бұрын

    “I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD Almighty. Isaiah 14:23

  • @IssaBenMariamma
    @IssaBenMariamma16 күн бұрын

    Waterville became a water ville.

  • @raymondsullivan7230
    @raymondsullivan723015 күн бұрын

    It looks like a lot of water everywhere United States going to have 500 tornadoes Angela's and earthquakes and some volcano eruptions thunderstorms tropical storms and hurricanes RPS 111 or Raymond Paul Sullivan III

  • @bbrcummins1984
    @bbrcummins198415 күн бұрын

    Uncle Joey sent all the money overseas

  • @superdoublekapowzler2383
    @superdoublekapowzler238315 күн бұрын

    Lemme guess.....we get to "bail out" lakefront homeowners.....who didn't have flood insurance......

  • @mariobianchi7917
    @mariobianchi791715 күн бұрын

    "La notte è avanzata; il Giorno è vicino.".

  • @robertmaloney2255
    @robertmaloney225515 күн бұрын

    Waterville town built between two lakes 😂 ffs

  • @ducngo1966
    @ducngo196616 күн бұрын

    Boats.

  • @simonaciobanu6149
    @simonaciobanu61499 күн бұрын

    In His great love, God tries to awaken mankind from their selfish occupations and worship Him, Who created and sustain all the planets, not only ours, see Revelation, chapter 14, verses 6 to 12: "Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth-to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.” A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’ which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.” A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus." The mark of the beast is honouring the Sunday, instead of the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath, which God sanctified and blessed since the creation of the earth, see Genesis 2: 1- 3: "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done."

  • @Rowels_Darling
    @Rowels_Darling15 күн бұрын

    Aren't they just getting what they asked for? I mean with a name like Waterville? Didnt' they all move there because it had such a charming, picturesque name and now they want someone else to have the water that they don't want any longer.

  • @MNcreampied
    @MNcreampied15 күн бұрын

    Trump would have stopped the flooding.

  • @sl4983
    @sl498316 күн бұрын

    It's engineered weather. Weather warfare

  • @ARandomDonut

    @ARandomDonut

    16 күн бұрын

    Bro what are you smoking

  • @crayolascents
    @crayolascents15 күн бұрын

    If the world were run by vegetarian women instead of meat eating men, this would never have happened.

  • @adbe1646
    @adbe164615 күн бұрын

    waterville, hmmm. foreshadowing much?

  • @SirNic4180
    @SirNic418015 күн бұрын

    All the money that would have been set aside to help this issue has been sent to Ukraine and now you must suffer. Enjoy the water in Waterville.

  • @lovetotheworld2522
    @lovetotheworld252215 күн бұрын

    Karma.

  • @xTracii

    @xTracii

    15 күн бұрын

    Fym karma? What did they do?

  • @lissalea8014

    @lissalea8014

    15 күн бұрын

    For what?!?!

  • @johnxiong9034
    @johnxiong903415 күн бұрын

    Dumb people built near a lake that is unstoppable

  • @Jackeyboyjack
    @Jackeyboyjack15 күн бұрын

    Why not pray to your god? No you plead with something called Mother Nature.