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Cars and trucks navigate a flooded Interstate 29 North of Fargo April 10, near Harwood, North Dakota. A seven-mile stretch of the interstate between Harwood and Argusville was open but flooded with water from the Red and Sheyenne Rivers. The Red River crested yesterday in Fargo at 38.5 feet, well below the anticipated 41 feet and the record crest 40.84 feet experienced in 2009.
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A home is surrounded by floodwater from the Red River on April 11, near Fargo, North Dakota.
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SSG Aaron Johnson (L), SP4 Jeff Daley (C) and PVT Justin Brickman of the Minnesota National Guard check the level of flood water while they patrol a levee on April 11, in Georgetown, Minnesota. The National Guard have been called in to help build, inspect and maintain levees in many communities along the Red River Valley around Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota.
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Snowplows are used to clear floodwater from Interstate 29 April 11, near Argusville, North Dakota.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least 10 tornadoes touched down in four states in the past two days. The Weather Channel's Chris Warren reports.
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Why should anyone feel the least bit of sympathy for the people of Fargo? This is just like Katrina: It's their fault for living there.
Wow! I wish I knew where Citizen K lives. Anyone would like to live where there are no natural disasters.
Okay, I have to say there are some really stupid people in North Dakota. Let me start at the top with the state police for not closing the interstate. The other stupid people would be the drivers of the snow plows and those who ordered them out there to push the water. Oh, and please lets not forget the drivers in all those vehicles that CANNOT see the road because it is completely covered in water. Sorry, but I will never visit your state after seeing the lack of common sense by its citizens and all of those that put their own life and many others in danger too. I just hope the next news on this is not a few deaths because of driving through this water, and especially innocent children involved. Just how do you get a driver's license in North Dakota anyway. It must be required to lack common sense and be stupid before getting one. Unbelievable that anyone would endanger themselves let alone probably their family members and children under 18 years old I am sure. Where is the DCFS when you really need them? Isn't this considered child endangerment and grounds for removal of the child from the parents? Before you critize me back, look at these pictures and tell me that what they are doing is intelligent and not dangerous. If you still are not convinced the crack you are smoking, must be some really good stuff.
People in the midwest do what they have to do, can the same be said about the east/west?
It's just the fact that people in ND know how to drive for the most part.
Nothing like a photograph to let the mind go 0-100 mph in an instant! From stupid drivers, child endangerment, to smoking crack! LoL, you are too funny!
I wonder if this person stays inside all winter because all these child endangering crack addicts would be driving in the snow!
Wow, isn't it incredible that Citizen K. and JoAnn are so much smarter than anyone in North Dakota? I'm impressed and amazed. Citizen K, please let me know when you hear anyone affected by this flood ask for your sympathy. Believe me, this is NOTHING like Katrina, on so many levels. JoAnn, before you go blathering on about the stupidity of an entire state, you might want to get a better grasp of the English written language. The devastation I feel regarding your refusal to visit is matched only by my wonder of your level of passion regarding this subject. If you're never visiting and we're all so stupid, why do you care so much?
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity. People of Fargo need to relocate. Your one and only insurance check should get should go to moving out of the flood zone. No tax payor aid should go to this insanity. Same with the Gulf Coast, it's a hurricane zone! Move people!
Hell might as well leave the US all together! There's natural disasters everywhere.
Let's talk population and logistics. Do you have a suggestion about how and/or where to relocate the approximately 300,000 people who live and work in the Fargo/Moorhead and Grand Forks/East Grand Forks areas? Do you have a strategy for how you're going to cope when the farms surrounding this area are deserted under your brilliant plan? Any thoughts on how to cover the skyrocketing costs of flour and sugar when the wheat and sugarbeet farmers are gone? What about the Microsoft and Amazon presence in these cities? Do you suggest that they just pack up and leave?
Yes, the recurring floods in these areas are recurring and costly, but RAHK, have you never benefited from "tax payor aid" in your time? When you put together a relocation plan, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it; myself, and the 17,000 volunteers who helped sandbag in Fargo alone during last year's flood.
Wow do you guys not get it. I live in the Pacific Northwest and we had communities that flooded every year. They were told to either 1) Move or 2) Move your house up, as FEMA was going to stop cutting checks to fix it time after time. We seriously have houses on 10ft stilts around here and farms in the flood plain have cattle pads. Its time to start thinking differently or your going to be doing the same thing durring next year's flood.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see the feasibility of relocating tens of thousands of people or stilting tens of thousands of houses. I suspect that these communities did not consist of 175,000 people as Fargo does.
I do empathize with the people of North Dakota. It sucks.
But, just a simple question about the main picture on the article: unlike snow, when you push water aside, it has this tendency to... come back.
So, what's the point of those trucks? Am I missing something here?
Seriously.
I was wondering that too...
I think the plows are to get mud and debris off the roadway. For JoAnn-1038484's information, when the picture with the vehicles on the road was taken, the water wasn't that deep and you could see the road through the water. That doesn't show up on the photo. That section of Interstate is now closed and the detour around it is 30+ miles. We may be be stupid, according to JoAnn, but we know how to take care of ourselves and each other. This is nothing like N.O.
Get ready Omaha. All that water dumps into the Missouri River and will be here soon.
Sorry Charlie but the Red River flows North into Lake Winnipeg, which is in Manitoba, Canada. It is a part of the Hudson Bay watershed. Also, FYI, the Missouri river is about 200 miles away from Fargo.
this photo is looking like it is a water city it is better to travel in the boats then the cars
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However, you don't hear near the looting, crime, and whining about needing the government to rebuild everything for them that you did in N.O. There is a lot more individual resourcefullness, and not sitting around waiting for the gov't to take care of them. They were sandbagging weeks ago. That being said, the snowplows is just about the dumbest thing I've ever seen...
I am glad to say that I am from Fargo and now live in Texas....great place to be from!! My prayers and thoughts go out to my family and friends that have stayed in the house on the prairie. There definitely is a need for what you stay and stand for!! Thanks for your hard work and good nature....oh yea, I received my drivers licence in Fargo and am very thankful...cause if you can drive in N.D. with winters and waters ...you can drive mostly anywhere....even here in San Antonio with the occasional rain or snow .
LOL at plowing water. Someone didn't think that idea through. Guess they just love plowing, and since all of the snow is gone, water will have to do. I'm sure the drivers get paid the same.