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Flooding in the Great Plains
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Unstoppably Creeping Up the Shores
The Red River in Fargo, ND, is rapidly rising, with perhaps 16 feet yet to go by week's end. Roads are disappearing into the icy water while dikes are frantically being built. Local schools and universities have been closed to allow people to sandbag, volunteers working around the clock. It has been raining most of the day, and that only exascerbates the problems to come.
On a personal note, my sister lives just a few blocks from the river where, as yet, no one is sandbagging, and she has been tearfully worrying about the inevitable creeping destruction.
In one photo, one can see a dike being built in a mall parking garage in Moorhead, MN, and even distant businesses are taking no chances.
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