House falls into river near dam amid catastrophic Midwest flooding [Video]

RAPIDAN, Minn. (KEYC/Gray News) – Video captured a home near the Rapidan Dam falling into the Blue Earth River near Mankato, Minnesota.

The home, which belonged to the owners of the Rapidan Dam Store, washed into the river at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“It’s been a very scary and hard situation,” Jenny Barnes, whose family has run the nearby Dam Store for decades, told KARE-TV on Tuesday before the house fell into the river. She also was worried about the store, the Associated Press reported.

“That’s our life, as well. That’s our business; that’s our livelihood. It’s everything to us,” Barnes said. “There’s no stopping it. It’s going to go where it wants to go. It’s going to take what it wants to take.”

As the western side of the river bank has been washed away since early Monday, eyes have been on the home after the river washed away all the transformers and other buildings …