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#221238 - 04/09/11 04:22 PM Red River flooding
dougwalkabout Offline
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Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 3219
Loc: Alberta, Canada
If the Red River is flooding, it must be spring.

Looks like a bad one this year, at least on the Canadian side. Not sure what's happening south of the 49th.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110409/winnipe-opens-floodgates-110409/

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#221268 - 04/10/11 09:01 AM Re: Red River flooding [Re: dougwalkabout]
Phaedrus Offline
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Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 3148
Loc: Big Sky Country
Mom just called me from Fargo, ND. Dad is in a facility getting dialysis and they're evac'ing because they're almost certain to be flooded. The Red runs thru ND and they suffer floods every year, and Fargo is in the gunsite yet again.

I wish I could get them to leave ND- it's been a mess for many years.
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#221274 - 04/10/11 04:15 PM Re: Red River flooding [Re: dougwalkabout]
TeacherRO Offline
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Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
Those 'once in a hundred years' floods are coming sooner and sooner

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#221339 - 04/11/11 05:36 PM Re: Red River flooding [Re: dougwalkabout]
pforeman Offline
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Registered: 04/23/08
Posts: 237
Loc: Iowa
Minnesota is getting it's fair share of water too. This year the slow melt and the preparations have paid off and it's going to be a lot less disruptive than in past years.

http://www.hsem.state.mn.us/eoc/2011flood/index.asp

That is our office web site where some basic info is available. The "related links" link has some additional good info resources for the state and Red River area in general along with some of the 'usual' disaster sites.

I was watching some aerial recon this morning of the Red up by Fargo/Moorhead and it is easy to see why the river floods every year... with all the curves and switchbacks it does while wandering south it is a wonder it isn't worse. The remarkable thing this year is the amount of water on the flat land areas - it looks like a giant shallow lake in several areas.

Paul in MN

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