Fargo prepares for devastating flooding

[Small Town Guy]

Lots of fears that it could be worse than in 1997. Grand Forks says it's much better prepared than then - the famous burning downtown - but Fargo-Moorhead looks to be in tough shape.

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[slappy4428]

Lots of fears that it could be worse than in 1997. Grand Forks says it's much better prepared than then - the famous burning downtown - but Fargo-Moorhead looks to be in tough shape.

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That will happen at the high water mark...

 

[Oggiedoggie]

I thought that we weren't supposed to start threads about storms.

 

[zeke12]

Godspeed, folks in Fargo.

I'm keeping a good thought.

 

[zeke12]

If this isn't a first, it ****ing well ought to be:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/58530?ref=/weather/alerts/localalerts/58530&from=breadcrumbs

Center, ND, is simultaneously under flood and blizzard warnings.

 

[RickStain]

They've known it was coming all winter.

 

[Hammer Pants]

So, does some sort of flood come every year around these parts?

Forgive my complete ignorance. I've never been to the Dakotas.

 

[RickStain]

So, does some sort of flood come every year around these parts?

Forgive my complete ignorance. I've never been to the Dakotas.

This was an obscenely bad winter in terms of snowfall. One of the worst in decades, I'm told.

So it all piles up, and it's not above freezing once between November and early March. Then when spring hits, it's all gotta melt and go somewhere.

 

[Hammer Pants]

So, does some sort of flood come every year around these parts?

Forgive my complete ignorance. I've never been to the Dakotas.

This was an obscenely bad winter in terms of snowfall. One of the worst in decades, I'm told.

So it all piles up, and it's not above freezing once between November and early March. Then when spring hits, it's all gotta melt and go somewhere.

I figured that would be the reason, but I wasn't sure.

Thanks. And good luck to everyone up there.

 

[JBHawkEye]

If this isn't a first, it ****ing well ought to be:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/58530?ref=/weather/alerts/localalerts/58530&from=breadcrumbs

Center, ND, is simultaneously under flood and blizzard warnings.

There were also several counties today under a tornado watch and a blizzard warning.

 

[jps]

ice pack at some places is five feet deep. not good. already flooding in areas there, earlier than they were expecting, so might be some trouble. they'd filled more than 500,000 sand bags (national guard, regular folks, ndsu spring football players and other college kids ... lots of people throwing in to help) but fargo area was saying they needed 1.5 million. i-29 south of fargo is closed and prca has called off its event that way.

 

[Bubbler]

This sort of amazes me having been there, but it shouldn't.

I went to Fargo last fall and expected the Red River to be really big for some reason ... then I drove over it into Moorhead without even noticing it. It's like a creek.

Yet, considering how flat it is, it wouldn't take much water to cause a major flooding problem, especially from the ice pack.

Good luck to those in Fargo. It's a cool town.

 

[OnTheRiver]

North Dakota gets more than its share of this bull****.

Good luck to the folks there.

And if you get a chance, folks, there's always the avenue of donating a 20-spot to the Red Cross to buy a few hot meals for people in these sorts of situations.

I started doing it when Katrina hit, and when these things happen, it makes me feel a little less helpless.

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aaecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=46f51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD

 

[RickStain]

This sort of amazes me having been there, but it shouldn't.

I went to Fargo last fall and expected the Red River to be really big for some reason ... then I drove over it into Moorhead without even noticing it. It's like a creek.

Yet, considering how flat it is, it wouldn't take much water to cause a major flooding problem, especially from the ice pack.

Good luck to those in Fargo. It's a cool town.

Outside of the Missouri, NDans have no idea what a river really is.

 

[93Devil]

If this isn't a first, it ****ing well ought to be:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/58530?ref=/weather/alerts/localalerts/58530&from=breadcrumbs

Center, ND, is simultaneously under flood and blizzard warnings.

Whoa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Miner

This was part of the Sunday sermon at my church.

I have no idea if our pastor stumbled upon this story while reading about the current conditions in ND.

 

[Iron_chet]

I grew up in Winnipeg which is about 3 hours north of Fargo. It was always a fun placed to drive down to and drink American beer for a weekend, friendly people too.

The Red river is one of the few rivers that flows north. It passes thru Winnipeg to Lake Winnipeg.

Winnipeg used to get hammered by floods as well until the floodway was built - basically an enormous ditch around the city that diverts the water. In bad years everything south of Winnipeg down to Fargo is turned into a huge lake - I guess this is what happens when you build on a flood plain.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Sincerely, hoping things don't end up disastrous for the folks up there. But do move the wood chippers to high ground.

 

[Football_Bat]

This sort of amazes me having been there, but it shouldn't.

I went to Fargo last fall and expected the Red River to be really big for some reason ... then I drove over it into Moorhead without even noticing it. It's like a creek.

Yet, considering how flat it is, it wouldn't take much water to cause a major flooding problem, especially from the ice pack.

Good luck to those in Fargo. It's a cool town.

Outside of the Missouri, NDans have no idea what a river really is.

If you're using the Missouri to illustrate your point, it's a bad example. It's nothing but two big lakes in North Dakota because of the dams.

 

[Football_Bat]

Speaking of which, a flood control *** or two on the Red would do wonders.

 

[Iron_chet]

I am not sure you could *** any part of the Red at this point, it would restrict the water going into Canada and submerge too many upstream US cities.

Maybe spend some stimulus cash on one of these:

http://www.floodwayauthority.mb.ca/home.html