Monthly Archive: March 2009

Mar 22

Flood!

Normally you can walk to this pedestrian bridge.

To continue on with the weather theme, the whole area is abuzz with the latest event: Flood ’09. Fargo is in a prehistoric lake bed (really a silly place to build a city, except maybe it provides a little shelter from the wind?) The problem is that the whole area is flat. Really flat. The …

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Mar 15

Thaw!

Alex and Sofie

What a week. We’ve seen a 63° temperature range, from way below zero to about the mid 40′s. That softened the snow enough to build stuff with it. The funny thing is that this feels quite warm – almost like spring. I remember complaining about how cold it was back in October when this was …

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Mar 10

Blizzard, part Deux

The snow is about as deep as mid-December, and there is more on the way.

We’ve got another snow storm! This isn’t out of the ordinary for Fargo, but it’s a pretty serious storm. The temperature is about 0°F, and wind is somewhere between 25-42 MPH. They have closed I-94 between Fargo and Jamestown, and I-29 is closed from South Dakota to Canada. Most places closed for the day.
I have …

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