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- Starlach, on 03/27/2009, -1/+49I've been sandbagging here for the last 4 days and I'm sore and tired. I don't think the reality of what's happening has really set in yet. The town is on lock down, military vehicles are everywhere, evacuations, helicopters and rescue vehicles are going round the clock. No one has EVER seen the Red River get to 41 feet (In Fargo/Moorhead) before. Today (Fri, March 27'th 2009) we're all on pins and needles making last minute preparations and waiting to see what happens tomorrow when the river crests. Then we get to hold our breath for 3-7 days while waiting to see if the dike holds. Many of us have already been evacuated. I know this is digg and humor is a defense mechanism, but please have some respect for the people in my town. Our lives are being thrown into chaos and it's not funny.
- ThatNeilDude, on 03/27/2009, -1/+39I live in Fargo.
Anyone trying to compare this event with Hurrican Katrina is thoroughly whacked. - Biscuitz, on 03/27/2009, -1/+20Considering they already evacuated....... how about you read a little bit.
Second, take your political ***** elsewhere. - mobislink, on 03/27/2009, -1/+15I hope the dikes hold out for you.
- thedogfatherx, on 03/27/2009, -1/+14We here in Fargo are not constantly trying to hold back floods.
- taylorhempel, on 03/27/2009, -2/+15As a resident of the Fargo I hated that movie. Aside from the fact that much of the movie was filmed no where near Fargo (it was filmed mostly around Brainerd, MN), the movie made people from Minnesota/North Dakota look stupid, unhelpful, and mean. That couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, Fargo is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation, and has been for the past 20 years straight. On top of THAT, the Fargo area has a very high percentage of college educated citizens living here.
Oh, and we're dealing with a bad-ass flood right now. Plenty of people helping strangers save their homes, so as long as the river crests where they are predicting, we should be fine. We had a few minor dike (yeah yeah, snicker away) leaks overnight, but nothing major.
Take THAT stereotypes! :) - Buelldozer, on 03/27/2009, -6/+18You're right, 'cuz you guys (and gals) are working your ASSES off trying to save what is yours instead of bitching and whining that "The Government" didn't help you enough.
- BigBrasky, on 03/27/2009, -0/+11http://www.inforum.com/
That's the homepage for the Fargo Forum. They've been keeping a constant update on the flood for those interested. They also have a live cam feed, but it's currently down. Thanks to all of those who have come out and helped! I was doing my part at my school and talked with a friend who was helping at the Fargodome and said the place is packed full of volunteers.
http://www.inforum.com/pages/floodcam - spyd3rweb, on 03/27/2009, -2/+13Yahoo might as well not even bother showing images. 300x200 is pathetic.
- Biscuitz, on 03/27/2009, -0/+10Perhaps a "political thread"?
- jerstud56, on 03/27/2009, -0/+9I concur. Last real flood was in 1997. I wouldn't call 12 years later constantly.
- taylorhempel, on 03/27/2009, -0/+9The rich soil is not a result of the flooding, it's the way the glacier carved the ground out as it was retreating. This is a low area, so all of the nutrients in the ancient lake got deposited here making the soil nutrient-rich. And there is such a thing called top-soil. If you lose it, you're screwed. Ask the people during the 1930s how losing their top soil worked out for them.
- igjoe, on 03/27/2009, -0/+9It's really bad right now. I'm not in Fargo, but I went to school there and have many friends doing all they can to help. Sandbagging in freezing temps is no fun. It's enough work to carry the bags, but now they have to throw them on the ground 5 times to break up the frozen sand. The Red River usually floods every year, but not like this...
- KimmyGibbler, on 03/27/2009, -1/+10Fargo was a great movie, so I am burying you
- Biscuitz, on 03/27/2009, -1/+10One with a spiked color and tattoo's.
- Dreeon, on 03/27/2009, -0/+8Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. - wayback09, on 03/27/2009, -15/+22Obama doesnt care about white people*
*Kanye West 2009 - taylorhempel, on 03/27/2009, -0/+7Because we would allow the flood water to wash away some of the most fertile soil on Earth.
- pathouston22, on 03/27/2009, -0/+6I went to Fargo for a football game a few years ago (SHSU/NDSU). Great place, if only it wasn't in the middle of no-where though. But quality people, quality town.
- Buelldozer, on 03/27/2009, -0/+6For the same reason we insist on having a city built below sea level right next to the sea!
- Pilot85, on 03/27/2009, -1/+7The people of Fargo had nothing to do with that movie. Most of it was actually shot in Minnesota anyway.
- ang48137, on 03/27/2009, -1/+7FTA:
"On the Canadian side of the northern-flowing Red River, ice-clogged culverts, ice jams and the rising river threatened Manitoba residents. Several homes were evacuated north of Winnipeg and several dozen houses were flooded." - inactive, on 03/27/2009, -0/+5Lived in Grandforks for a couple of years, and found the people there very nice and intelligent, not stupid at all. However I have to say I did enjoy that movie. I remember my first time flying into Grandforks I thought to myself “Where in hell is the runway?” that has to be the smallest international airport ever. Besides the brutal winters, I found it quite and nice.
- BenS, on 03/27/2009, -0/+5Good to see so many people from Fargo on Digg. West Fargo here wishing you well!
- martalli, on 03/27/2009, -0/+5The Klan is not an upper Midwest phenomenon. Just because a place is not on the coast, don just assume it fits some stereotype you've developed.
- taylorhempel, on 03/27/2009, -0/+5To all the people suggesting a diversion so this doesn't happen again, there is a project in the works right now to make sure this doesn't happen again.
A permanent levee (much like Grand Fork's) is going to be constructed along the river so this never happens again. From what i've heard, if the levee they have planned would have been in place, little to no sandbagging would have been needed. - greevar, on 03/27/2009, -3/+7"Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry."
- TomT127, on 03/27/2009, -0/+4Wow. I feel so sorry for these folks. The only thing worse than having to get out and try to save your property from a raging river is to have to do it while it's snowing and freezing cold. I just cannot even imagine having to go through that.
- jerstud56, on 03/27/2009, -0/+4Very true. I'm from Fargo. I got the hell out of there a few days ago - came home to my parents place for the time being (school is basically under water anyways). I wasn't going to stick around.
- Pilot85, on 03/27/2009, -1/+5Maybe this will get them to bite the bullet and build flood dikes like Grand Forks did (we're protected here up to 60 ft.). I am on call as we speak to drive a bus down there in case they order general evacuations. Here's hoping it isn't necessary.
- ZeeSniper, on 03/27/2009, -2/+6I wonder why theres no violence and looting going around there?
o yeah, its not a complete sh!thole like New Orleans. - taylorhempel, on 03/27/2009, -0/+4Well, every airport up here is technically international because even the smallest planes can make it to Canada. :D
- Slade605, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3Actually this is quite inaccurate, there is a ton of looting and voilence, people hitting sand w/ shovels and people are throwing a ton of ***** into a bag, quite violent.
- oo7evan, on 03/27/2009, -2/+5Revenge on thousands of hard working people that had nothing to do with a Cohen Bros film that was shot mainly in Minneapolis and greater Minnesota? Ya, you might be wrong.
- gweedo767, on 03/27/2009, -6/+9Why again do we constantly try and hold back massive rivers that WANT to break into flood plains? We call them flood plains for a reason...
- Treshnell, on 03/27/2009, -3/+6The economy is more like "Obama's Katrina" than this is.
- heaintheavy, on 03/27/2009, -1/+4They need a better protective dyke.
- gcnaddict, on 03/27/2009, -0/+3a spiked color?
you mean like hot pink? - taylorhempel, on 03/27/2009, -0/+3The Red River Valley is the result of one of the biggest glaciers to come down during the last ice age. That's what made the land so great for farming. Flat and fertile. Unfortunately, that's it's curse too. Flat and flood-prone.
The Red River flows NORTH too if anyone was wondering why this river is so prone to flooding. - frishackbanned, on 03/27/2009, -0/+3Rosie, we have a job for you.
- gametavern, on 03/27/2009, -1/+4My sister is there, and has been displaced. Sucks.
- martalli, on 03/27/2009, -0/+3I suspect our kids will scratch their heads at the reference to a "Chevy"...
- MrFurious2k, on 03/27/2009, -0/+3I grew up in Fargo and still have a lot of friends and family in Fargo. It's very unusual to have this level of flooding. It's just been an usual year with a lot of snow and rain. To top it off, there has been a lot of snow/rain in the past few days when they need it the least.
The crazy part is that probably by late summer, they'll have watering restrictions because of a drought. Fargo seems to attract the craziest weather patterns. - snotrokit, on 03/27/2009, -0/+3I was there in 97 helping you guys out, I was North of Fargo. Wish I was there again, good luck all.
- pacerx, on 03/27/2009, -0/+3Hopefully they can get something similar to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Floodway
It has paid for itself many times over. - martalli, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2I have family who used to own a farm on the Mississippi floodplain. I think I'll trust the farmers' impression. The people losing their topsoil were practicing poor land management, coupled with a bad drought. I'm perfectly aware of what topsoil is. I know what clay and loam are. Don't you think that if your impression was correct, that after thousands of years of flood, the Mississippi and Missouri would have scoured their way to the bedrock? In fact, the slowing of the river by flooding allows more sediment to settle out of the water than would occur in a more narrow, faster-moving waterway.
- phre3k187, on 03/27/2009, -1/+3put a finger in the dyke
- Stuffburger, on 03/27/2009, -0/+2It would in an adventure game.
- brad3378, on 03/27/2009, -0/+2FYI,
They were quoting lyrics from an old Led Zeppelin tune titled "When the Levee Breaks". - jmill987, on 03/27/2009, -0/+2Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well. -
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