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Fargo prepares for devastating flooding

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Small Town Guy, Mar 23, 2009.

  1. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Obviously a unique problem to the Red because it flows north.

    Surprised at how small its drainage basin is south of Fargo. It must take a shitload of snow in that small of an area to create that much melt.
     
  2. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    Um, why would someone be arrested for standing on a flood dike?
     
  3. JBHawkEye

    JBHawkEye Well-Known Member

    If they aren't sandbagging, someone standing up there could cause damage.

    We had someone arrested during last summer's flood for being on a levee without permission.
     
  4. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    The Forum's battling the flood as well. Swimming through the pipeline.

     
  5. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    I'm not sure what to think of that. Incredibly brave? Perhaps. Putting workers in extreme danger? Yeah, that too.
     
  6. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    I guess if there's any good news in this story is that the reporters busting their butts will be getting a massive amount of overtime. One could hope anyway.
     
  7. jps

    jps Active Member

    best friend manages a video store that's in the evacuation zone. he's not sure if it'll make it or not, but is just busting tail sandbagging and hoping for the best.
     
  8. JBHawkEye

    JBHawkEye Well-Known Member

    And then a couple of months later the bill comes due.

    At the Cedar Rapids Gazette, their reporters and photographers busted their asses covering the flood last summer. Several of them got axed a few months ago.
     
  9. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    I thought Fargo got a new plant after the '97 flood. Don't tell me they built it in the same flood zone.
     
  10. OTD

    OTD Well-Known Member

    Isn't the whole city pretty much the flood zone?
     
  11. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    The titular massive head of the GOP thinks it all is quite the trough of comic material.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/27/limbaugh-hillary-is-twice_n_180072.html
     
  12. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Downtown, including NDSU, is a little bit higher than the rest of the area.
     
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