Minnesota flooding: St. Peter riverside bar now an island

ST. PETER, MINN. — No man is an island. Neither was this southern Minnesota sports bar, until the floods came tumbling in. Neisen's Riverside Sports Bar in this southern Minnesota college-town is now surrounded by water from the swollen Minnesota River. "Riverside was apparently a good name," said Katie Straub, general manager of Neisen's Riverside Sports Bar. "Last I saw the place was Monday." St. Peter has known flooding before. Locals recall a dramatic deluge in the early 1990s that prompted many property owners on the east of the river...