The Red and Red Lake River is rising steadily this week. Since they merge just about 1.5 miles from our house we have been watching it with a lot of interest lately.
Fargo is expected to get record flooding and the citizens are calling for volunteers to help in the sand bagging process in hopes of deterring the massive surge that will crest later this week.
There is still a lot of snow melting and the ground is frozen solid ice for 30" below the surface so anything and everything that runs off goes into the rivers.
We got about half and inch of rain here Grand Forks last night on top of that. Some areas got 4-5 inches. We have to look at everything south of us because they are the ones that got the most snow this winter and our Red River flows north...yes north. The only river in America (that we are aware of anyway) that flows north...
What lies just north of us??? Lots of frozen ground and rivers of solid ice...resulting in an iceberg dam. We don't have flood insurance and it takes a month for the premium to go into effect anyway so we have to ride this one out and pray that the levies hold.
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How is it looking today?
today they closed the bridge I normally take to work and this afternoon were working on closing the bridge that is in the middle of downtown...leaving us only one bridge to get out and they are talkng about closing it by Friday. My office is going to move me to the other side if this bridge closes and we don't know when the river will go down...there is a blizzard coming and it is expected to dump a lot more snow plus several severe storms are forcasted for next week.
I hope things are ok for you. Hang in there. I'm thinking of you!
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