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 to a safer level.
Later in the morning ice jams on the Red River north of Fargo-Moorhead caused a swift rise in water levels in Hendrum, Minn. A call for volunteers went out to help raise the city’s dike on the west side of town and residents from all over the Red River Valley responded.
Red River stage, 9:15pm: 39.68ft
(Previous) Record: 40.1ft
Flood stage: 18ft
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- A homeowner in the Oak Grove neighborhood shows a sense of humor.
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- A dredger works on a railroad bridge spanning Fargo, N.D. and Moorhead, Minn.
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- A Blackhawk helicopter prepares to drop a one ton bag of sandbags on the dike breach at Oak Grove school Sunday.
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- A Blackhawk helicopter prepares to drop a one ton bag of sandbags on the dike breach at Oak Grove school Sunday.
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- Flood water sits next to a building on the Oak Grove campus after a dike breach in the early morning hours of Sunday.
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- Dike walkers photograph flood waters in the Meadow Creek neighborhood of Fargo.
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- An inflatable water toy is frozen in the flood waters next to a dike in the Meadow Creek neighborhood of Fargo.
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- Spec. Tyler Braaten, left, and Spec. Adam Braaten, brothers from Hankinson, N.D. and members of the North Dakota National Guard 188th Vertical from Wahpeton, N.D., talk with homeowners in the Meadow Creek neighborhood Sunday.
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- Homeowner Virgil McKay, left, talks with Norman County engineer Mick Alm, center, and Hendrum, Minn. fire chief Paul Luoma Sunday.
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- Mickey the dog inspects a hose draining water from the home of owner Virgil McKay on the edge of Hendrum, Minn. Sunday, March 29, 2009. McKay’s home is surrounded by flood water and five pumps are keeping leaks at bay.
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- Mickey the dog walks along a dike next to owner Virgil McKay’s home on the edge of Hendrum, Minn.
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- Flood waters surround the home of Virgil McKay in Hendrum, Minn.
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- Steve Morken of Climax, Minn. lays sandbags along a dike on the edge of Hendrum, Minn. Sunday.
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- Dozens of volunteers fill sandbags in the middle of Main Street in Hendrum.
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- Ann Tommerdahl, right, and daughter Maria Tommerdahl, 12, fill sandbags in the middle of Main Street in Hendrum, Minn.
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- Dozens of volunteers fill sandbags in the middle of Main Street in Hendrum.
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- Bev Kolness, right, and Marlene Hetland mix a batch of lemonade for flood fighting volunteers in the kitchen of the Hendrum, Minn. school Sunday. “After church all hell broke loose,” said Kolness.
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- Volunteers prepare meals for Minnesota National Guard troops and sandbaggers in the kitchen of the Hendrum school.
