Photos: Deadly flooding hit La Crosse area one year ago
Heavy rains caused dangerous high water, flooding and road closures across the La Crosse region in September 2016. To read more about the events about that deadly week, click here.
Victory Rain Aftermath
Bulldozers clear debris and mud from a closed Hwy. 35 near Victory after landslides and flash flooding caused one death and widespread damage in September 2016 in the small Mississippi River town.
Victory Rain Aftermath
Debris from mudslides and flash flooding cover a rail and the ground along Stevens Street Thursday in Victory where torrential rains took their toll.
Victory Rain Aftermath
An excavator clears debris and mud from a closed Hwy. 35 Thursday near Victory after landslides and flash flooding caused one death and widespread damage in the small Mississippi River community.
Victory Rain Aftermath
Community members congregate along a flood-ravaged Terhune Street in Victory Thursday after heavy rain overnight caused mudslides and flash flooding in the community, which sits at the base of a bluff along the Mississippi River.
Victory Rain Aftermath
A bulldozer clears debris and mud from a closed Hwy. 35 Thursday near Victory after landslides and flash flooding caused one death and widespread damage in the small Mississippi River town.
Black River Falls dam
High water rushes through the dam gates dam at Black River Falls.
Black River Falls dam
High water rushes the dam gates at Black River Falls.
Black River Falls dam
Rushing water backs up from the dam at Black River Falls.
Bangor Veterans Memorial Park Walking Bridge
Bangor Municipal Utility workers tape off access to the walking bridge over Dutch Creek in Veterans Memorial Park after flood waters took out the bridge Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Victory Rain Aftermath
Community members congregate along a flood-ravaged Stevens Street in Victory after heavy rain caused mudslides and flash flooding in late September.
Victory Rain Aftermath
Debris covers the ground in Victory Thursday after mudslides and flash flooding from heavy rainfall caused widespread damage in the small Mississippi River community.
Train Derailment
BNSF workers check railroad tracks Thursday near the site of a derailment north of Ferryville. Two locomotives and five cars left the tracks at about 5:40 a.m. as the result of a washout near the bridge over Rush Creek.
Train Derailment
A BNSF locomotive sits at the site of a derailment north of Ferryville Thursday.
BNSF estimated about 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from the train. It has not been determined how much fuel reached the river.
Victory Rain Aftermath
Marc Rott, left, and his son Richard work around his house along Terhune Street in Victory Thursday after torrential rains caused widespread damage in the community, which sits at the base of a bluff along the Mississippi River.
Victory Rain Aftermath
Genoa Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Don Nickelatti inspects the remains of a house where the occupant was killed when a landslide demolished the structure Thursday morning in Victory. Heavy overnight rains caused the landslide, which closed down Hwy. 35.
Rush Creek Road
Ruts riddle a road near Rush Creek Road and Rutter Hill between De Soto and Ferryville.
Rush Creek Road
A gravel road is eroded near Rush Creek Road and Rutter Hill between De Soto and Ferryville.
Victory
A road in Victory was covered in debris Thursday morning after heavy rains hit the region.
Rain runoff fills dry dam
A dry dam along Co. XX west of Viroqua in central Vernon County is filled with rainwater runoff after 4 inches of rain fell between Wednesday and Thursday.
Liberty Pole
A barn near Liberty Pole in Vernon County was damage by high winds.
Co.XX flood damage
Up to 4 feet of gravel and fill that was used to create a roadbed for a recently paved portion of Co. XX was washed away in flooding between Wednesday and Thursday. The roadbed now is warped and cracked.
Co. XX covered in a mudslide
Newly poured blacktop on Co. XX near Viroqua is covered Thursday, Sept. 22, by a mudslide a quarter mile long and up to a foot deep.
Flooded Sidie Hollow Lake
Floodwaters rise above Sidie Hollow Lake west of Viroqua. The water was up 100 yards beyond the boat landing. Flooding overnight Wednesday added about 8 feet to the lake.
Mudslide
Several rock slides along Boat Landing Road show why it is dangerous to venture onto rural roads. Co. XX and Boat Landing Road west of Viroqua are damaged significantly and covered with debris in many places.
Rushing flood water
The swollen Sidie Hollow Creek sends water rushing toward the already flooded Sidie Hollow Lake just west of Viroqua Thursday.
Surveying the flooding
Tracy and Chad Thelen of Viroqua got their RV out of Sidie Hollow County Park by moving it to higher ground on Wednesday and then moving it home on Thursday. They returned to the park the two hours later and found that the water level had risen 8 feet overnight.
Water logged
Three large recreational vehicles sit in floodwater after being pushed off of their sites at Sidie Hollow County Park near Viroqua, Thursday, Sept. 22.
De Soto high school football field
High water and rain caused extensive damage to the De Soto High School football field.
De Soto high school football field
De Soto High School's football field can't be used for the rest of the season because rushing waters obliterated it.
De Soto high school football field
High, rushing water damaged the De Soto High School football field so severely that it can't be used the rest of the season.
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