People, animals flee floods in NE Minnesota city
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Floods fed by a steady torrential downpour have forced residents to evacuate their homes and animals to flee their pens at a zoo in a northeast Minnesota city.
Police spokesman Jim Hansen says officers helped staff at the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth to catch escaped animals, including a polar bear, after up to 8 inches of rain fell on the area late Tuesday.
Zoo officials said Wednesday that some barnyard animals died, but that none left the zoo grounds.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Elsewhere in Duluth, Interstate 35 and downtown tunnels are closed and authorities say conditions are too dangerous for driving due to sinkholes and washouts.
Hansen says about a dozen homes in Fond du Lac have been evacuated.