Minnesota residents surrounded by water stay put

With all roads leading into Oslo, Minnesota covered by the raging Red River, it can be difficult for people like Heather Holter to get around.

HEATHER HOLTER – Homeowner: “Last year I left for a couple days, every now and then I need to leave for a couple days. I go to school.”

Holter goes to school in East Grand Forks, more than 20 miles away. That's after taking an airboat over deep water.

Heather: “I talk to all my professors and everything’s all in line. So that's really nice.”

Nearly 1-hundred of the 3-hundred-50 people that live here in Oslo have left because of closed roads. People who stay worry about what it will do to the community.

SANDRA SIMONSON - Oslo City Council Member: “It makes a big impact, it impacts the stores. You know like Dahlstrom Motors for example. You can't boat in people to buy a car if they can't drive it out. It doesn't work.”

After 3 springs of being cut off from surrounding areas, many here just deal with the flooding because of their love of the small town.

Heather: “It's the niceness of the community, helping out if I can, visiting with people around town.”

Sandra: “We went to North Carolina, we went everywhere before we decided where to relocate and came right back to Oslo.”

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