Minneapolis City Hall reporter Steve Brandt provides this dispatch from the North Side Monday morning:

Keith Reitman was cleaning debris by a closed street just off W. Broadway and Penn Av. N., and marveling over the fate of two of the 10 buildings the longtime North Side landlord owns that are clustered around the intersection known as Five Points.
"Both of these are like vivisections," he remarked, pointed to side-by-side duplexes he owns. "It is a miracle that when people were in their homes and the walls were sucked off, no one was injured."
Two of the duplexes lost large sections of walls, while a third rental building adjoining them lost part of its roof, and his commercial building at Penn and Broadway also was damaged.
That left Reitman, who said his buildings were insured, looking up some contractors he knows, and worrying about partially exposed belongings of his tenants. "They need more than a place to flop," he said.
Clothing clung high up in the branches of a tree in one of his yards, utility lines littered the street, and bricks ripped from the facade of another storefront across the street littered the street.
But in an example of the selectiveness of the twister, a newly rehabbed building across Penn that houses KMOJ radio station escaped with only minor damage, according to Lisa Wade, a representative of developer Catalyst Community Partners. Only one set of petals of the large colorful sheet metal flowers that rise above a bus shelter was torn by the gale, and a city wireless pod hung unscathed over the intersection.