ST PAUL, Minn. — Historic moments are easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for, unless you live anywhere along a river in Minnesota. With water levels rising, the question for those living near the Mississippi in St. Paul is simple.
"When is the peak, when does it finally stop rising?" Maria Kelly, who lives across the river from Harriet Island, said.
"It's really shocking to see," Owen Jackson, who also lives across the river, added.
The National Weather Service is also keeping a close eye on those river levels.
"We were expecting flooding, maybe not the degree to which we've been flooding," Tyler Hasenstein, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Twin Cities office, said.
River levels are holding steady, according to the National Water Prediction Service. Leveling off is good, and should mean that the water level will eventually go down – but Hasenstein says there's more rain on the way to start the week.
"Quite a significant system, kind of similar to what kind of the previous few systems have looked like," he said.
Those systems were so potent that Hasenstein says they dumped an entire summer's worth of rain in just one month.
"In the world of kind of your standard deviations, and kind of the world of statistics, these numbers are already statistical anomalies," Hasenstein said. "And the fact that we're getting even more just makes it even more so."
With so much rain, there's only thing Jackson and Kelly are wishing for now.
"I'm definitely ready for it to come back down to normal now," Jackson said. "I miss enjoying the park and everything it gives me."
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