Monday’s band of severe storms in northwestern Wisconsin brought

flash flooding to some fields.  There are

reports of more than eight inches of rain in the Ellsworth and Baldwin areas. 

Tom Gilles farms near the Kinnikinnic River northeast of River Falls. He says, “We have the hardest hit with as much as eight and nine inches of rain as well, so we weren’t only dealing with our water, we were dealing with a lot of the watershed area water.”

Gilles says the river rose more than eight feet after the storm, washing out the bridges leading to his home and flooding around 40 acres of corn and soybeans.

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