Water, water everywhere. The squiggly lines mark seven breaches that let the flood waters in. More of the city was submerged than not.
Neither dikes nor sandbags held back the river
WINONA Minn. – The most devastating flood in Winona history, in 1965, reduced the city to two islands of high ground. Elsewhere you had to wade. Dike after dike collapsed like dominoes as the Mississippi River rose to 20.87 feet. Since then the dikes have been fortified and new ones built, notably on Riverview Drive, Prairie Island Road and downtown.
Earlier: Most Upper Mississippi locks closed shut