SE Minnesota banks deal with unique flood problems

Mud in the house
The interior of a building in Rushford is coated with mud.
MPR photo/Mark Steil

Some people in southeastern Minnesota are turning to their banks for loans or mortgage deferments as they try to figure out how to put their lives back together.

Banks, however, have been dealing with their own damage. For example, employees of the Associated Bank of Rushford has set up shop in a high school library after flooding reached the bank's vault and pushed them out of their main office.

MPR's Cathy Wurzer talked with Steve Bianchi, regional president of Associated Bank.

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