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Photos: Torrential rain floods Lake Minnetonka; homes in peril

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Minnehaha Creek flooding
Carolan Carr steps over a sandbag wall behind her house in St. Louis Park, Minn. Monday, June 2, 2014. Carr said the flooded Minnehaha Creek in her backyard is as high as she has ever seen it during her 13 years in her home.
Jeffrey Thompson / MPR News

Lake Minnetonka is at its highest level since officials started keeping records in 1906 -- and people who live next to Minnehaha Creek are eyeing the water nervously as more rain threatens to flood homes along the waterway.

• Story: Torrential rain leaves flooding in metro
 • Story: Sewage warning on Lake Minnetonka

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Mudslide
Damage from a mudslide that occurred on Sunday, June 1, 2014, on Burr Ridge Lane, Eden Prairie, Minn.
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Playing in the flood
Four-year-old twins Logan and Lily McGannon of Long Lake, Minn. played on a flooded Wayzata Beach playground as Lake Minnetonka reached record-high water levels Monday, June 2, 2014.
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Minnehaha Creek flooding
Carolan Carr steps over a sandbag wall behind her house in St. Louis Park, Minn. Monday, June 2, 2014. Carr said the flooded Minnehaha Creek in her backyard is as high as she has ever seen it during her 13 years in her home.
Jeffrey Thompson / MPR News