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 town.
On the north side of town volunteers completely took over the floor of the Fargodome to fill sandbags by hand and soldiers from the North Dakota Army National Guard 815th Engineering Company built a clay dike on the access road to Edgewood Golf Course.
Rain turning to snow is predicted for Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
Red River stage, 9:15pm: 32.59ft
Record: 40.1ft
Flood stage: 18ft
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- City of Fargo employees Jeremy Grandstrand, right, and Mike Shultz drive stakes marking the predicted Red River flood crest height of 41 feet.
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- Megan Aarsvold, 17, passes a sandbag down a line of volunteers as they build a dike behind her home in the Meadow Creek neighborhood of Fargo, N.D.
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- Jeff Haiskanen pulls sandbags off a pile and passes them down the line as volunteers build a dike in the Meadow Creek neighborhood of Fargo, N.D.
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- Volunteers fill sandbags by hand to be used in dike building in the Meadow Creek neighborhood of Fargo, N.D.
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- Volunteers add sandbags to a dike in the Rosecreek neighborhood of Fargo, N.D. as the Rosecreek coulee rises behind them.
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- im DeBoer, right, and Chad Pundsack stack sandbags on the end of a dike in the Rosecreek neighborhood of Fargo, N.D. DeBoer of Ottertail, Minn. came to Fargo to help his brother-in-law Pundsack who lives in the neighborhood.
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- Jonathan Race of Grove City, Minn. passes a sandbag down the line as volunteers build a dike in the Rosecreek neighborhood of Fargo, N.D.
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- Dave Reyerson tosses sandbag into the scoop of a front-end loader while hundreds of volunteers fill sandbags by hand at the Fargodome to be used for dikes to protect Fargo, N.D. from the rising Red River. The city’s indoor stadium has been converted into a massive sandbag filling station staffed by volunteers.
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- Hundreds of volunteers fill sandbags by hand at the Fargodome to be used for dikes to protect Fargo, N.D. from the rising Red River.
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- Hundreds of volunteers fill sandbags by hand at the Fargodome to be used for dikes to protect Fargo, N.D. from the rising Red River.
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- Forklift operators haul palettes of sandbags to a waiting truck in Fargo, N.D. for use in dikes to protect the city from the rising Red River while a line of trucks carrying sand wait to enter the Fargodome.
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- A forklift operator hauls a palette of sandbags to a waiting truck in Fargo, N.D. to be used in dikes to protect the city from the rising Red River.
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- A Fargo police officer prepares to escort trucks carrying sandbags from the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D. to locations where dikes are being built to protect the city from the rising Red River.
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- North Dakota Army National Guard soldiers from the 815th Engineering Company build a clay dike along the access road to Edgewood golf course on the north side of Fargo, N.D.
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- North Dakota Army National Guard soldiers from the 815th Engineering Company build a clay dike along the access road to Edgewood golf course on the north side of Fargo, N.D.
