A day after a storm ripped through the western Iron Range, Grand Rapids Mayor Dale Christy saw good coming from a bad situation.
âThe cool part here is with all the division there is in society, you see neighbor helping neighbor,â Christy said. âIt s a good thing.â
For the second time in three days, thunderstorms on Monday evening ripped across northeastern Minnesota.
In Grand Rapids, the destruction was âhorrible,â Julie Kennedy, Grand Rapids Public Utilities general manager said.
âWe had 5,000 outages out of 7,500 customers,â Kennedy said. âWe re annihilated. The town is unbelievable.â
Trees fell on power lines and on homes throughout the city, Kennedy said.
That was the forecast at a conference Julie Kennedy attended several years ago.
âNow we are starting to see that water is a rich commodity,â Kennedy, Grand Rapids Public Utilities general manager said.
Several Iron Range municipalities are asking residents, businesses and other users to conserve water as a summer-long drought lingers.
So far, the conservation requests are voluntarily.
âWe did voluntary efforts probably about a month ago, specifically irrigation,â Kennedy said. âPeople say, I can deal with my yard dying, but I just put $1,000 worth of shrubs in . We re asking people to take shorter showers, turn off the water when they re brushing their teeth, and to sprinkle between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.â
July 23, 2021
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