Officials say levee fails near Wis. park

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Officials say levee fails near Wis. park
By Associated Press


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A flooded baseball field in the town of Renner, S.D., is shown in this aerial photograph from Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. Dozens of homes flooded after the Big Sioux River overflowed. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers)


A levee along the Wisconsin River failed on Sunday, flooding the access road leading to a park area and cutting off any residents who did not heed daylong warnings to evacuate.

It wasn't immediately clear how many of the roughly 300 residents remained in Blackhawk Park around 4 p.m. Sunday when the road was closed following the failure of the Caledonia Levee south of Highway 33.

The Columbia County Emergency Management Office was letting nobody in or out of the park until further notice and warned all morning that emergency vehicles, including police, fire and ambulances, would not be able to reach any residents who stayed behind.

Kathy Johnson, deputy director of the Columbia County Emergency Management Office, told The Associated Press that in the event of an emergency, "people are going to have to come out by boat."

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http://www.salon.com/wires/us/2010/09/26/D9IFT2NG0_us_midwest_flooding/index.html

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1. I wonder if any of the evacuees were wearing minute-men costumes?