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.
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- A road outside of Lisbon, N.D. is washed out.
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- Water boils over the top of a county road near Lisbon.
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- A Ransom County dump truck hauls dirt over a flooded county road.
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- A dump truck hauls dirt over a flooded county road near Lisbon.
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- Overland flooding fills fields to the south of Lisbon.
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- The home of Shane Gilbert near Lisbon is surrounded by rising flood waters from the Sheyenne River.
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- Ed Lund drives a skid steer loader through a flooded portion of his farm.
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- A bridge is overwhelmed by the Sheyenne.
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- Dave Bjornson waits for palettes of sandbags to be loaded on a trailer in the Swanke Addition of Valley City, N.D. Bjornson and other volunteers where building a dike around the home of 86-year-old Hazel Edlund to protect it from the rising Sheyenne River.
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- Darren Bjornson, right, passes sandbags down the line as he and other volunteers a dike around the home of 86-year-old Hazel Edlund in the Swanke Addition of Valley City.
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- Marty Undem lays sandbags on a dike around the home of Hazel Edlund.
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- Marty Undem catches sandbags as volunteers build a dike around the home of Hazel Edlund.
