I figure since we lived through 2 historic floods in the past 2 years that it would be important to document the event. Last year, the Fargo-Moorhead area wasn't really ready for the Red River reaching an outrageous 40.8 feet last March. You see the Red usually flows at about 14 feet and flood stage statis is reached at 18. The community really pulled together last year and sandbagged like Crazy! It is supposedly a once in a century occurance. ....or NOT!!!
This year, our community was definietly more prepared and because of that (if you weren't right along the river) it almost seemed as if there was no flood but there was!
The Red River finally crested at 36.99 feet on the 21st. Here's a few charts of the predictions and it's fall after the flood.
Here's a collage of a certain area of the Red and how within days the river took over. It really is crazy how so much water can be in one place.
Here's a video of this collage if you want to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6dUqD3I3P8&feature=player_embedded
We are really LUCKY to have a community that pulls together and help each other out so unselfishly. We are truly blessed.
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