The Flood Today

These pictures are from March 24th and 26th. They are pictures of a farmstead 2 miles south of the Wild Rice River. The first picture shows the farmstead on March 24, no water. The next picture is two days later and it is surrounded by water. Yes, that is water right up to the buildings.

Today the weather has turned cold. Tonight it is suppose to get down to zero. I never thought that the weather man would say the low tonite is zero and I would reply,(Thank God). We need the cold to slow the Red River down. The river is suppose to crest tomorrow at anywhere from 41.5 to 42 feet crest. Right now it is sitting at 40.8 feet (flood stage is 18 feet). The rise of the river has slowed down dramatically. Once we reach the crest it may stay high for 3 to 7 days. It is not so much if the dikes can take the high water, but can they take all that pressure for that long.

This the city of Fargo and all of our volunteers since monday have bagged over 3 million sandbags. In the last 24 hours there have been many evacuations of neighborhoods in and outside of the cuty. Dikes have not been breeched, but we ar in uncharted waters. The flood of 1997 reached 39.5 feet. So in all true actuallity we really do not know what is going to happen.