We officially entered the major flood stage today. That is 30 feet. 18′ is where minor flooding begins. Most of Fargo’s flood protection stops at about 40′. They are predicting a crest at about 41′ on Saturday/Sunday, and because of that, the whole town has been really hopping. The three colleges in town cancelled classes, as did the high schools, and most are helping with the sandbagging efforts. The city reported that they made nearly a half-million sandbags yesterday. They have some nifty portable walls that the National Guard constructed, then filled with dirt. Those are between my house and the river.
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- Portable wall assembly
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- Portable wall awaiting assembly
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- Big army front loader (and a Bobcat skid loader.)
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- Flood wall awaiting dirt backfill.
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- Filling the portable walls. (Note: not using the locally-produced Bobcat skid loaders.)
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- The end of our street during flood wall construction.
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- The end of our street during flood wall construction.
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- Rebecca’s colleague’s house prior to sandbagging the Northwestern corner.
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- The river is at 31′ (this is Moorhead)
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- Rebecca’s colleague’s house. (I helped build the dike.)
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- The view from Moorhead.
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- The view from our house. They closed the road.
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- Flood Wall
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- Flood walls. (There’s a soccer goal on the other side of the wall.)
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- Lucy in front of the fully deployed flood wall.
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- I-94 overpass & 5th St South
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- Portable walls, prior to deployment
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- The end of our street.
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- The end of our street.
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- Snow in our front yard
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- Finished Dike (Lumber and sandbags)
