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- Aroundtown27, on 03/28/2009, -1/+261Dugg for Boston.com's amazing (one page) photo galleries as always.
- inactive, on 03/28/2009, -0/+160Did anyone else appreciate this ingenuity? I bet you it was the older guy in glasses in the back that thought it up.
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphic ... - KnowNewIdeas, on 03/27/2009, -0/+115It's amazing to see people working together like that. I won't lie...it makes me want to hug a stranger.
- enderu, on 03/27/2009, -2/+87The Red River flows north, not south. Which is actually part of the reason it floods, it flows into colder climates.
Great pictures, but it's incredibly disappointing the river is now supposed to crest higher than they predicted, higher than the levees were made. - themoop, on 03/28/2009, -0/+59Boston pictures, ***** Yeah!!!
- pkiani, on 03/27/2009, -14/+59Science bless the volunteers!
- spyd3rweb, on 03/27/2009, -10/+55No FEMA = No *****.
- charlietree, on 03/27/2009, -4/+45Thats nuts dude...I cant believe that happened...I hope those people are going to be ok....
- jasdf, on 03/28/2009, -0/+40FEMA is coming, trust me, I'm helping set up for their arrival.
- inactive, on 03/28/2009, -12/+50The difference between the ethics of the people in New Orleans and North Dakota are huge.
1. North Dakotans will work to prevent flooding and clean up afterwards and not complain about it. There is a sense of community and the people really care in ND.
2. There is NO LOOTING in North Dakota. People are way to busy helping each other to prevent a disaster. And lending a hand to those who have no home or those that came hours away to volunteer.
3. Race is not an issue. Sand bag crews up in ND have, white people, indians, black, asians. They all have a common purpose and that is to save a city. New Orleans was turned into a race issue by the residents who didn't help, that left there houses vacant for years after the flood and is costing tax payers millions a year after the flooding.
4. New Orleans residents have a histrionic hand-wringing, a woe-is-me attitude, a who-is-going-to-help-me mantra that is the result of their upbringing. . There are people living in a gym on cots right now in Fargo and no one is complaining and they are going out helping every day. - Zera, on 03/28/2009, -1/+35That's good, but only 1% as good as THIS: (Skip to 3:10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdYqSRmmMs
- yurishoujo, on 03/28/2009, -3/+31This kind of stuff makes me glad to be an upper Midwesterner. The place is known for this kind of banding together. To hell with FEMA, we've got each other.
- raviu90, on 03/28/2009, -1/+21dugg for picture number 10
whoever thought of that invention is a GENIUS - molarty, on 03/27/2009, -0/+20Freezing weather and water are never a good mixture --yikes!
- Banalfa, on 03/28/2009, -0/+19In Fargo now. Spent about 30 hours over the last week at one of the 'legs' of the machine pictured in this article.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/floods/2009-03-22- ...
They ended up having three of them set up. - Zera, on 03/28/2009, -4/+22Okay, America. It's been a few years since this incredible invention. WHY DON'T WE HAVE THEM YET????? The name ALONE should sell you.
Skip to 3:10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdYqSRmmMs - Leifdawg, on 03/28/2009, -0/+18I go to college there, and before we were evacuated, everyone was volunteering for a week straight. It was never a matter of if you were or weren't volunteering, because everyone was participating. If anything good came from this it was the fact that so many people were able to realize the importance of community and helping out in whatever way possible. I hope that people continue to realize this even if they weren't around the area.
- kelstock, on 03/28/2009, -1/+18The selflessness and spirit of these people shows the best of humanity
[inspired] - inactive, on 03/27/2009, -0/+17I actually feel like getting off my lazy ass and going down there to help. That would suck if it happened in my neighborhood.
- shyner, on 03/28/2009, -0/+17I'm always amazed by the quality of their pictures.
- jynweythek, on 03/28/2009, -0/+16Some of the worst flooding is here where i live, in fargo. it's the highest flood we've had in recorded history, breaking the record set about 100 years ago. a few neighborhoods have been evacuated, but so far we've held off any major breaches and there isn't any big damage to homes (yet)
It's been really great to see the community come together to fight this flood. tens of thousands of neighbors and college students have been sandbagging tirelessly all week. incredible to see people who are so tired and so cold (we had a blizzard this week and it's been below freezing for much of the sandbagging effort) but everyone just keeps going.
check this link to see a graph of the water height. http://moist.dreamhosters.com/flood/level2009/ It's definitely slowing down and we're hoping it will crest really soon. the river usually sits at ~15 feet, now at about 41, which means it's gone up 26 feet. think about what that means for a moment. - Angostura, on 03/28/2009, -0/+16"Every year" = Worst flooding for 112 years, apparently.
- edwinjose, on 03/28/2009, -3/+18Archimedes is somewhere up there looking down at us smiling... /s
- DMoney16, on 03/28/2009, -0/+14Good thing Winnipeg expanded its floodway recently. They're high and dry for the most part. (The same can't be said for the rest of southern manitoba)
- cpdylan, on 03/27/2009, -0/+13The aerial shot is crazy!! Poor people.
- defectDS, on 03/28/2009, -2/+15Things like this just make me say "Yay humans!"
- Samueul, on 03/28/2009, -4/+17They had no warning that a cat 4 hurricane was going to hit and that the levees wouldn't hold that type of storm at bay?.... mrjhmm is right on the ***** money..
- swalker37, on 03/28/2009, -0/+12Amazing. I'm originally from winnipeg, born and raised now living in Calgary. This looks eerily familiar to the "flood of the century" in 1997 which i witnessed first hand. I hope the damage is controlled!
- mongrel, on 03/28/2009, -0/+12Great to see all the smiles on the faces, and not moping about. Community like that, good chance none of those folks will be homeless for long.
- Truevl, on 03/28/2009, -0/+12I lost my house in the Grand Forks flood of 97just north of Fargo, and I will fight till the end so it doesn't happen to me in Fargo to
- viv4l4b4m03, on 03/28/2009, -0/+12took him 17 years to make. wow
- BigBrasky, on 03/28/2009, -0/+11I've made this comment a couple times within the past couple of days, but I think it's alright:
http://www.in-forum.com
That's the homepage for the Fargo Forum. They've been keeping a constant update on the flood for those interested. Everybody here has been doing a spectacular job of helping with the sandbagging! Glad I was able to help and to see so many other people helping! - rac1234, on 03/28/2009, -0/+11The guy in photo 18 looks remarkably cheerful considering he's up to the balls in ice-cold water.
- superbobd, on 03/28/2009, -1/+11I live in Winnipeg (manitoba), and I know alot of people who are actually going out to help sandbag tomorrow. Kinda nice to see, considering that Winnipeg will probably be fine.
- ejake24, on 03/28/2009, -0/+10You couldn't pay me enough to leave the upper mid-west.
- Egroh08, on 03/28/2009, -0/+9Amazing to see all those people come together to help each other.
- Larsonal777, on 03/28/2009, -0/+9Well as someone whose used one this week I can tell you that it was most likely not that guy that came up with it since they have them all over town. Some people have roof vents instead of cones.
If you're looking for a cool sandbag machine here's a vid of the sandbag central
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kol3X5-FRI
But even cooler is the amount of volunteers working through the night even though they're houses aren't the ones in danger. The slideshow here is from a graveyard shift (1-4) in the Fargodome. NDSU got this entire week off as well as the local high schools just so us students could help (NDSU is in no danger of flooding)
http://digg.com/people/Sandbagging_in_the_Red_Rive ... - Dr3w, on 03/28/2009, -0/+9I'm down for a hug
- Larsonal777, on 03/28/2009, -1/+10Because when you've got 10s of thousands of volunteers filling bags and stacking dikes... the problem isn't that they can't fill the bags fast enough... its that they can't get the stuff moved out where it needs to be fast enough... there's only so many trucks... and they were getting police escorts. It's amazing to me the kind of people here in the Midwest. Not only did NDSU and all the local high schools get off school this week just to help (NDSU isn't in any danger) there were people driving in from all over the place to help out. Literally everybody dropped everything this week to help complete strangers.
- dementer0, on 03/28/2009, -1/+9Yes...... Slow.. Sure...
http://moist.dreamhosters.com/flood/level2009/ - imashmuck, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7I love the last picture. A 12 year old working with college students to save some houses. That's awesome.
- ejake24, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7False. I was sandbagging in Fargo today, and only a few small areas are calling for voluntary evacuations. About 3 million sandbags have been filled and placed by volunteers to control the damage and spread of the flood, and temporary clay and dirt dikes have been also been made.
- aegis17, on 03/28/2009, -1/+8To be fair, flooding like this occurs pretty much every year in that region, and people learned long ago that working together can save people's lives and livelihoods.
In New Orleans, everything was wiped out, sandbagging could not have helped at all. It was all too sudden. At that point, it stopped being a "Let's save what we can" situation, and started being a "I need to save myself" situation. - Cl1mh4224rd, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7> "We should all take a lesson from this. Get it?"
There are at least a few lessons "we" could learn from this. You're going to have to be more specific... - Rodalli, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7Great pics. Dugg for boston.com.
- krakow056, on 03/28/2009, -8/+15Hum... apparently, no riots, no looting...
Interesting. - AaronCo, on 03/28/2009, -1/+8Or maybe they just know how to store water and eat canned food?
And perhaps it's not healthy to always look for help from big brother. - killerkabuki, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7Yeah, they post large photos on one page with good minimal commentary that really sucks you in and allows you to get a good perspective (as good as the web allows) on what people around the world are suffering through
- krackle, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6Nope that's a different Red River, go wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River - geodebug, on 03/28/2009, -1/+7The flood in New Orleans was predicted for decades. While I agree with stringing up Bush and his feds for sitting idle while people suffered the problem of Katrina was compounded by long years of incompetence and corruption by state and local officials and the residents of the area who kept them in office.
It is also fair to look at the amount of taxes that flow back into each region. -
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