Flood Pictures
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This one kind of sums it all up.
One of Doug Stensguard's dogs, Annie, looks out over what used to be a 5-acre yard and an out building that is now flooded by the rising Red River, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. Stensguard built an earthen and sandbag dike around his home in the hope of holding back the rising floodwater from the Red River.
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picture from this morning of all of our cars parked on county 17. Once our roads go under we get to throw on our waders and walk to our cars.
standing on the dike just north of the diversion, north of 12th ave n, west of county 17 looking at the sheyenne
19th ave n bridge over the sheyenne looking north, usually the water is so low here that you can't see the river if you are in a car driving over this bridge and could probably cross it and only be waist deep
Same bridge looking south
yard/horse pasture on the east side of the sheyenne next to the bridge
sheyenne river in the yard 3 houses north of mine
standing in the driveway looking into the backyard 2 houses north of mine
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63vette;267983 wrote:
This one kind of sums it all up.One of Doug Stensguard's dogs, Annie, looks out over what used to be a 5-acre yard and an out building that is now flooded by the rising Red River, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. Stensguard built an earthen and sandbag dike around his home in the hope of holding back the rising floodwater from the Red River.
He is up the road from my dad's place. In 97 he was boating sandbags in and saved it.
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Hey Fargo guys, I don't mean to be insensitive to this at all because of course this situation sucks a lot. I've never head to deal with flooding and I'm thankful for that.
Here's the question though: Flooding has happened on a semi-regular basis for a very long time. When this flood is over and people begin to rebuild surely people should expect that in the future it will flood again, right?
So why doesn't the cities affected do something permanent about it, or is that not possible? Why not have a 55 or 65 foot dike built to deal with it on a more permanent basis?
Also, if you can be guaranteed that the red river valley will flood SOMETIME within the next 2 - 20 years, why would anyone build a house or buy a house in that area?
Again, not trying to be insensitive. Just some questions that came up at my work today.
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ChrisNelson;268134 wrote:
So why doesn't the cities affected do something permanent about it, or is that not possible? Why not have a 55 or 65 foot dike built to deal with it on a more permanent basis?I am 99.9% sure something like that will get passed this spring/summer, and will be built.
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they have been trying to get the funding to do so for a long time, the gov doesnt seem to think we are a top priority. so we wait.
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standing at the end of my driveway looking north at the oncoming river at 6:00 pm
Picture from the highway looking at the houses to the north of us, you could literally watch the water flowing in. 6:00 pm
The ditch off of county 17.
Standing in the driveway looking north/northeast at 9:30 PM
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Bp-08;268165 wrote:
obamaHas nothing to do with it.......
Anyways back on track......im sure something will be done after this spring. After 97 grand forks built their levee system.
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Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall
Torque is how far you take the wall with you -
Unfortunately it takes a major disaster for anyone to get any money/funding to fix potential problems. So, the answer (for the smartass posters who brought Obama into this) is that his administration will most likely be the one to fix this problem via disaster relief.
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