While we’re on the same page as our current event theme on the Great Flood of 2024, we have a TYB moment, taking us back to the last time we had such record-setting flooding; namely April 1969. Ron Bramstedt brought this photo up to our attention recently and it shows a man holding up the sign with the year on it. In the background is the Kilen Woods State Park Bridge, located 10 miles south of Windom in Jackson County, Minnesota. Both rival towns had set records for the highest amount of floodwater respectively, and despite the bridge’s location deep in the high bluffs of the Des Moines River valley, one can see how high the water levels were, as the through truss span was largely inundated, and the water was only centimeters behind the person holding up the sign. He was located 150 feet away from the bridge’s entrance. This photo showed how bad the flood really was at that time.
The Kilen Woods Bridge has been gone for two decades now with a concrete span in its place. It makes a person wonder how that span survived Aquarius’ wrath with the floodwaters……..
More information on the Kilen Woods Bridge can be found in the following link:
The Bridgehunter's Chronicles 