WCCO's Beret Leone calls the scene "astounding" near the corner of West 50th Street and Penn Avenue South, just a couple blocks south of Lake Harriet, with around a foot to a foot-and-a-half of water pouring out of Paperback Exchange bookstore.

Javonte Lynn, a water distribution trainee with the city of Minneapolis, and Josh Menne, a water distribution foreman, left to right, carry flower bouquets in the flooded basement of Lake Harriet Florist in Minneapolis on Thursday.

All residents parking on Oliver Avenue South have been notified as the water might freeze cars to the street if they are not moved soon.