Keep Senator Julie Rosen in your thoughts and prayers as flood waters rise around her house

KXRA's Voice of Alexandria reports in Minnesota Senate Approves $10 Million to Disaster Assistance Fund:

The Minnesota Senate today (Thursday) unanimously approved ten-million dollars to replenish the state's depleted Disaster Assistance Contingency Fund. East Grand Forks Republican Mark Johnson said this is a critical bill "especially this year as we see flood waters rising in southern Minnesota. I know we're gonna be seeing that going forward here in northwest Minnesota especially." Senator Julie Rosen of Vernon Center says lawmakers will continue monitoring the flood situation across Minnesota as they set the state budget.

As is the nature her leadership, Senator Rosen was only thinking of others in her remarks on the Senate floor, paraphrased in the news brief above.  The Minnesota Senate is much more formal than the emotional and sometimes edgy House, and so it's not odd that she didn't introduce her own domestic drama to the discourse about flooding in Minnesota.

Some of her neighbors, however, were so concerned about the Blue Earth River's flooding in the Vernon Center area that they sent photos of her rented home, which along with that of her landlords, had become an island in the flood waters. Residents of Vernon Center learned of the threat to her home when the landlords spread the news that they needed a boat to get back and forth to and from dry land.

Such is the nature of a small, close-knit community like Vernon Center that a boat (right, below) was secured for the stranded property owners.

Should the Blue Earth River's waters inundate the small rented house, Rosen can take shelter in her second home on a hillside on Sibley Memorial Highway overlooking the river in Mendota. The house was built in 2011 after her divorce from prominent Fairmont businessman Tom Rosen.

Perhaps the Senate Republican Caucus could organize a sandbagging party for Vernon Center--and given her past actions, we know she'll be touring any disaster areas in her district, just as she did last summer with then-Governor Mark Dayton and then-congressman Tim Walz.

However, should she be stranded in the Evil Metro this weekend, perhaps Rosen can--in the spirit of OneMinnesota--volunteer for sandbagging in nearby South St. Paul. Details here.

South St. Paul sandbagging event Saturday at public works building
By @NFerraroPiPresshttps://t.co/Lo5G40EMsI via @PioneerPress

— Phillip Pina (@PhilPina) March 22, 2019

In the meantime, keep everyone in danger of the rising waters in your thoughts and prayers.

Photos: Submitted photos of floodwaters surrounding Julie Rosen's official residence, the small reddish house.

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