April 15th - April 21st Weekly Social Media Recap
TWIN CITIES - While we hope everyone who comes to Limitless Media for their local independent community news also follows us on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, we realize that not everyone has a profile with these platforms. To help fill the gap for those individuals who might not have a profile on any of these social media platforms, we have decided to start doing weekly recaps from posts we might do across these social media platforms. These posts often do not have a lot of information, so we often do not have enough to write up a full article on them, but they might be impactful enough in the community that residents should be aware of them.
We hope these weekly recaps will help further fill the gap in local news coverage across our communities!
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Monday, April 15th, 2024
We have seen several residents across the Twin Cities Metro asking about the low-flying helicopters and what they are doing. Well, the answer is mosquito control! The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District (MMCD) has been busy applying dry treatment to marshes and ponds with active mosquito larvae. According to the MMCD, the dry treatment has an active ingredient, Bti, formulated to control mosquito larvae. You can find a full list of the counties and cities crews work in here. According to the MMCD, this list is updated daily at 8 AM.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
COTTAGE GROVE, MINNESOTA—10:30 AM: Several area fire departments are battling a quickly spreading grass fire in the 9200 block of 110th Street in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. The fire started from a downed power line and quickly spread due to the wind. According to scanner traffic, they might have the fire now contained, as rain has started to aid with extinguishing.
Cottage Grove Fire, Newport Fire, St. Paul Park Fire, Hastings Fire, Woodbury Fire, and MN DNR (canceled) have all been called out to this fire.
EAGAN, MN - Just after 4 PM on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, a multi-vehicle crash occurred on westbound I-494 near Dodd Road in Eagan, Minnesota. The cause of the crash and whether there were any injuries is not known at this time, but this accident caused significant traffic delays in both directions in this area. The crash occurred as moderate to heavy rain worked across the Twin Cities Metro.
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA - A vehicle caught fire at Highway 62 and Dodd Road in Mendota Heights, Minnesota around 5 PM. Fire crews were able to quickly extinguish the fire and were clear the scene by 5:15 PM. No injuries were reported.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
TWIN CITIES METRO—Here is a rough look at rainfall totals across the Twin Cities over the last 12 hours. The heaviest rain fell across the west Metro, where upwards of 1.50 to 1.80 inches have fallen so far. Across the rest of the region, around 0.65 to 1.50 inches fell, which was much needed!
With the MSP Airport sitting at 1.31 inches unofficially, there's a good chance we will break a daily rainfall record since the previous one was 1.04 inches in 2003. We were half an inch below normal on precipitation this month. This would put us well above normal, which is great to see! We were also 0.65 inches below normal for the year, but this would also bring us back above normal. The official total from the MSP Airport ended up being 1.33”, the new daily rainfall record for Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
Friday, April 19th, 2024
Here is a list of all the Fix-It Clinics in Dakota County through November 16th, 2024! The next clinic is tomorrow at the Robert Trail Library. Link list here.
There are links at the bottom of the page for Anoka County, Carver County, Hennepin County, and Ramsey County Fix-It Clinics.
Written by: Will Wight
