MADISON, SD, (KELO.com)– Rising floodwaters in Madison, South Dakota, make the streets look like rivers. Dakota State University closed its campus on Thursday and Friday to keep its students safe.
Austin Babcock, a student at DSU, said that right now, water is everywhere.
“Yesterday and the day before, pretty much any direction I’d go, the road would be closed…it’s just basically a river. The road [barriers] were all floating away a couple nights ago,” he said.
Living wise, Babcock was lucky. The house he rents with a few other students faired against the rushing waters and they experienced no flooding. Some of their friends, however, we not so lucky.
Babcock said, “I had a couple friends who got evacuated ’cause their place was flooding. They came and stayed with me.”
One student, in particular, had a rude awakening two nights ago.
“I had a friend who woke up and their bed was floating ’cause it’s in the basement and there’s a lot of water,” he said.
The students are safe, but Babcock said that no one can go anywhere because of the water.
“Madison is floating,” he said.
