(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 have been holding. By midday the Red River actually leveled off and began to drop but officials where not ready to call this a crest (the “c-word”). The hopefulness this development triggered was evident in the throngs of people that flocked to the Veterans Memorial Bridge at Main Avenue to catch a glimpse of the enemy.
The latest model by the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service shows the river dropping below 40 feet by late Monday.
Red River stage, 9:15pm: 40.44ft
(Previous) Record: 40.1ft
Flood stage: 18ft
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- A man carries bags of groceries back to his home in Moorhead, Minn. as the sun goes down Friday evening, March 27, 2009.
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- Flood waters from backed up storm sewers fill an intersection in Moorhead, Minn. Friday evening, March 27.
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- Firefighters from Alexandria, Minn. and Osakis, Minn. walk along a dike as they check for any problems in Moorhead, Minn. Saturday.
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- A helicopter flies over volunteer Kevin Kooren as he fills sandbags in the Moorhead Country Club neighborhood.
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- Volunteers fill sandbags in the Moorhead Country Club neighborhood.
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- A helicopter flies over volunteers filling sandbags in the Moorhead Country Club neighborhood.
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- Flood waters of the Red River near the top of the Island Park dike near downtown Fargo, N.D. Saturday, March 28, 2009.
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- A man videotapes the Red River near Main Avenue in Moorhead.
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- The Red River covers a stairway on the Veterans Memorial Bridge at Main Avenue.
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- The Red River expands well out of its natural channel as it approaches Veterans Memorial Bridge.
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- A sightseer admires the swollen Red River from the Veterans Memorial Bridge which connects Fargo, N.D. and Moorhead, Minn. Saturday.
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- A sightseer takes a photo of the swollen Red River from the Veterans Memorial Bridge.
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- Chris Laveau of the U.S. Geological Survey loads a boat onto a trailer after measuring the stream flow of the Red River in Moorhead, Minn. Saturday, March 28, 2009. The communities of Moorhead and Fargo, N.D. received good news Saturday that flood waters have dropped slightly and may have peaked.
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- Water flows from a pump back into the Red River in Moorhead.
