Bob Collins
The river level is dropping and much of the attention in the neighborhood today is inside. Drains in basements are giving the Red a way in, but the neighbors are ready.
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I’m back in Riverview Circle, riding in a pickup over very icy and rutty roads. I’m riding with Ed Dorsett of Moorhead, who goes to the same church as Todd and Donna Morse. We’re heading to the store to get some ShopVacs and a marine plug. The plug is for John Brummer’s boat, which he’s preparing, just in case.
The residents of Moorhead have taken everything nature can throw at them. They’re fighting back, of course, and apparently just getting warmed up.
Just as hopes were being raised behind the dikes, it all came apart for a Moorhead neighborhood on Friday.
Riverview Circle comes alive
John Brummer says a drain the city of Moorhead didn’t plug, is now threatening his neighborhood, and he’s getting angry about it.
Watch video: If clinging to hope and a refusal to quit is all it took to beat back a flood, the Red River would be down for the count.
I’m in the Morses’ house, we’re getting water behind the dike now. Next door at John’s house, there’s a small group trying to make sandbags, lots of water coming through there. No volunteers, sandbags or sand being allowed in the neighborhood. I’ll go over there to help out as soon as I finish this post. Read more →
Video of the morning after the evacuation in the Riverview Circle neighborhood of Moorhead.
This neighborhood, and this city, did in five days, what it took three weeks to do in 1997, and they’ve done it better, and they’ve made the dikes higher.
An aerial view of Riverview Circle shows how the Red River is conspiring against the neighborhood.
Saving Riverview Circle: The fight ends