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Published June 20, 2012, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: Duluth-area flood, June 2012


The view from 59th Avenue West and Raleigh Street in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Andrew Krueger / akrueger@duluthnews.com)

  • The view from 59th Avenue West and Raleigh Street in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Andrew Krueger / akrueger@duluthnews.com)
  • This is a view from 57th Avenue West and Olney Street in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Andrew Krueger / akrueger@duluthnews.com)
  • A minivan throws up walls of water while charging through flood waters on the 600 block of East Third Street in Duluth on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, after heavy rains hit the area. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
  • Two cars sit partially submerged in water in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Chuck Frederick / cfrederick@duluthnews.com)
  • Here's a view from Highway 23 in Fond du Lac on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Andrew Krueger / akrueger@duluthnews.com)
  • Flooding is shown in Duluth's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Andrew Krueger / akrueger@duluthnews.com)
  • Flooding is shown at the entrance of Morgan Park in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Andrew Krueger / akrueger@duluthnews.com)
  • An entrance to Morgan Park was flooded the morning of Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Duluth. (Chuck Frederick / cfrederick@duluthnews.com)
  • Courtney Hatland, Trisha Giernett, and Ashley Peterson examine the floods waters that snared one driver and closed off access to the Morgan Park neighborhood. Both roads to the neighborhood were flooded Wednesday morning. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Ben Caine tries to keep a stormwater drain open at West 8ht Street and 57th Avenue West. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Olney Street in West Duluth was washed out.(Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • A woman examines Miller Creek, which flooded backyards in Lincoln Park Wednesday morning. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Miller Creek in flood Wednesday. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Old North Shore Road, inland from the Highway 61 Expressway at Homestead Road in Duluth Township, was completely washed out Wednesday morning at Schmidt Creek. (Mike Creger / mcreger@duluthnews.com)
  • A crew from the Minnesota Department of Transportation surveyed damage at Silver Creek Wednesday morning on Minnesota Highway 61 north of Two Harbors, just before the Silver Cliff tunnel. Conditions on the main highway along the North Shore are tenuous, with roadsides washed away at nearly every stream and river and debris littering the aprons. (Mike Creger/mcreger@duluthnews.com)
  • Flood Bay, just north of Two Harbors on Lake Superior, was littered with debris Wednesday morning. Whole trees bobbed in the lake from Two Harbors and up the North Shore. (Mike Creger/mcreger@duluthnews.com)
  • A car fell into a huge sinkhole on Skyline Parkway at 9th Avenue East in Duluth early Wednesday morning. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Water shoots like a geyser from a storm sewer at 3rd Avenue East and 3rd Street Wednesday morning in Duluth' s downtown. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Houses along 59th Avenue West near Raleigh Street in Duluth are completely flooded by water from an overflowing nearby creek. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • A stalled car sits abandoned under the overpass into Morgan Park Wednesday as a bicyclist walks his bike to reach the other side. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Shelley Smith of Duluth leaps across a small creek that carried debris down Chester Parkway in Duluth Wednesday morning. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • A car fell through the collapsed pavement on Midway Road near in Hermantown on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Greg Culver / gculver@duluthnews.com)
  • A car is nose down in a sinkhole at 7th Avenue East and 1st Street Wednesday. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Residents of the Fond du Lac neighborhood as well as motorists stuck on Highway 23 in Fond du Lac who were evacuated wait in the DTA bus before they're taken to the Copper Top Church. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Neighbors can't believe their eyes as they look up Olney Street at 59 Avenue West. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Seasonal Duluth Street Maintenance workers Brent Jorgensen (left) and Brooks McMahon shovel debris off London Road at about 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, both in an effort to remove debris for motorist and to try to keep storm drains from plugging. Water across the road was more than a foot deep in places. (John Myers / jmyers@duluthnews.com)
  • Zach and Rebecca Eustice walk along First Avenue East near Eighth Street Wednesday morning. (John Myers / jmyers@duluthnews.com)
  • Maple Grove Road was underwater Wednesday morning. (Andrew Krueger / akrueger@duluthnews.com)
  • The rain washed out North Eighth Avenue East below Skyline. (Jana Hollingsworth / jhollingsworth@duluthnews.com)
  • The rain washed out North Eighth Avenue East below Skyline. (Jana Hollingsworth / jhollingsworth@duluthnews.com)
  • A kid walks through waist deep water in the Superior High School parking lot behind a car that was stuck along 28th Street in Superior on Wednesday. As of noon, the high school itself was not flooded. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
  • Cars along Maple Street in Superior are stuck underwater on Wednesday morning after more than seven inches of rain has fallen in the last 24 hours.(Jed Carlson/jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
  • This was the scene at the railroad tracks near the entrance to Spirit Mountain in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Photo courtesy of Barbara Carey)
  • Here's another image from the railroad tracks near the entrance to Spirit Mountain in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Photo courtesy of Barbara Carey)
  • This was the scene at the railroad tracks near the entrance to Spirit Mountain in Duluth on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (Photo courtesy of Barbara Carey)
  • A blown manhole on Fifth Street at Lake<br /><br />Avenue in Duluth late Tuesday, June 19, 2012. (photo by Laci Severson)
  • Flooding in Duluth on June 20, 2012. (Photo by Alison Gimpel)
  • Floodwaters rush down stairs off Fifth Street in Duluth on Wednesday morning. (photo by Betsy Leerssen)