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Sheyenne River Flood – Tuesday, April 14, 2009
North Dakota photojournalism legend Bruce Crummy and I toured the Sheyenne River Valley to see the damage the Sheyenne River is causing. It’s rising to historic levels in both Lisbon and Valley City where locals, the National Guard and Army Corps of Engineers continue to raise and monitor dike systems.
Red River Flood – Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Kris Kerzman described today as a floozard – flood and blizzard all at once. We multitask up here.
I spent part of the afternoon out of the floozard with Sarah Kjos and Robby Njos in their home along the Red River in Moorhead. Their dike is right next to their home, so close it’s under the [...]
Red River Flood – Sunday, March 29, 2009
Early Sunday morning a dike at Oak Grove was breached and the school (which my nephew attends) was flooded but due to the massive emergency response damage was limited to a few buildings. The rest of the community was relatively calm as people continued to watch their dikes and waited for the river to drop [...]
Red River Flood – Saturday, March 28, 2009
(Note: I was almost done typing this when I realized I had the wrong day in the headline. I think there are a lot of people in the area that can relate to that.)
Saturday was calm. While there were occasional rushes by rescue personnel with lights and sirens to shore up a leak, the dikes [...]
Red River Flood – Friday, March 27, 2009
Early morning Friday was a far cry from the scene on Thursday. Congested roads and stalled traffic gave way eerily quiet streets. Swings through Moorhead, downtown Fargo, Meadow Creek and the Amber Plains subdivision in the morning found few people out activily fighting the water but after Thursday’s marathon who would be surprised.
The volunteers in [...]
Red River Flood – Thursday, March 26, 2009
An optimistic day of sandbagging was ruined by a new, record-setting crest prediction of 42 feet. Volunteers are at it again to try and raise the dikes on the southern end of town to 44 feet in 24 hours.
Thursday I started in Meadow Creek where they were busy trying to get the dikes to 43 [...]
Red River Flood – Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I spent the entire day in Oxbow, N.D. just south of Fargo photographing the deteriorating situation. The water came up higher and faster than expected and several people need emergency evacuations in the morning. The command center was the Knickerbocker Liquor Locker in Hickson (literally on the other side of the road from Oxbow) which [...]
Red River Flood – Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday started out sunny unlike the previous two days but the urgent nature of the flood fight was still the same. The Rosecreek and Meadow Creek neighborhoods raised dikes to protect their areas from the rising water of nearby coulees. Sandbags from Sandbag Central and the Fargodome were still delivered with lights-and-siren police escorts throughout [...]
Red River Flood – Monday, March 23, 2009
Sandbagging moved into high gear on Monday across the area with massive amounts of clay, sand and sandbags being moved around the community. In Fargo trucks loaded with sandbags were given lights-and-siren escorts by police cars from Sandbag Central to the southside of town. Scores of students from Shanley and Fargo South high schools built [...]
Red River Flood – Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sunday was a massive day of preparation in Fargo-Moorhead. On the North Dakota side flatbed semi-trucks, city and National Guard trucks delivered palette after palette of sandbags to residents along the Red River. City buses delivered volunteers to private homes to help build dikes. With rain moving in and an earlier record-breaking crest expected the [...]
Red River Flood – Friday, March 20, 2009
After a wet fall, record snowfall in December and March blizzard the Red River is expected to reach levels similar to the flood of 1997. Massive preparations are underway to fight the flooding including the filling of sandbags by volunteers and dike building.
March Storm
We had a doozy of a blizzard this week that left some impressive drifts. Unfortunately this wasn’t even our worst storm of the year. Yikes. Here’s a couple of photos of my daughter by the drifts around our house.