Four girls aged 8-14 were rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter early Sunday morning, Bring Me The News reports. “The drama unfolded on Saturday evening, with the parents of the girls […] reporting just after 8 p.m. that the girls had been paddle boarding from Black Beach in Silver Bay when they lost their paddles as they stopped on an island.” The girls made it back to their family unharmed.

The spate of severe weather we’ve experienced across Minnesota has “damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes, displacing many Minnesotans,” MPR News reports. When you combine that displacement with Minnesota’s current shortage of affordable housing, “it’s becoming more difficult for those displaced from their homes to find places to stay — especially during an emergency.”

However, severe weather ha

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