You knew it was going to happen. :P

Videos the Fargo Forum linked to

Thanks to the storm-generated waves, we need to secure the sandbag levees with plastic tarps. But we also have to secure the tarps.

The solution? Take a potato, wrap it loosely in the tarp, take some string and loop it around tarp and potato, and then tie the other end to a sandbag. Voila. :P

Now that river levels have started dropping on a regular basis, I figure I can gripe. :P ( Read more... )

Oak Grove Lutheran School in north Fargo has had a breach in their levee. The breach has been contained, but it sounds like two of their buildings have been damaged, and residents in that area have been advised to plug their drains.

I anticipate more such breaches as the week continues--I hope that we can continue to see and respond to them

The Red River may have crested at 40.82 feet earlier today. We'll know for sure in a day or two.

All the same, the water will be high for the next week to ten days. It ain't over yet.

"Hard pounding this, gentlemen. Let us see who pounds longest." -Wellington, at the Battle of Waterloo ( Read more... )

. . . floods, thunderstorms, torrential rains, hail, blizzards . . . when do we see the fire from the sky and the river turning red? I imagine that the frogs and locusts are frozen solid somewhere with an expression of "What just happened?" on their faces.

Someone's been fingering that "Smite" button again.

Blame sethrak for the title. :P ( Read more... )

It's been melting all weekend here, and the overland flooding has begun. Street drains are frozen shut, so our streets are drainage ditches. And the river has begun rising. Stay tuned...

Monday and Tuesday had a total snowfall of about ten inches. Parts of town are still digging out, though they finally decided to sic payloaders on the really big drifts. Some of them were easily ten feet tall ( Read more... )