Bob Collins
Meet John Beecher, who lives just south of Moorhead, Minnesota on the banks of the Red River. If he’s lucky, you’ll never hear of him again.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Floods
When the Red River comes calling in March, it will try to destroy this neighborhood by finding the weak spot among neighbors.
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The Mississippi River flows over sidewalks and stairs near downtown St. Paul — and the water’s still on the rise.
Than Tibbetts
A spate of spring storms left the Red River Valley with swollen creeks and streams over the past week. Eventually, all that water must pour into the Red River and head north to Canada. The photo above was taken yesterday on the north end of the Island Park Levee in Fargo. Instead of a lake, Read more →
Update from Riverview Circle
NASA’s Earth Observatory has released incredible images of the swollen Red River when it was at its record crest.
The river is still up to the sandbags and still presents a threat, but residents are allowing themselves to relax and in some cases leaving home and going to work.
Monday flood meeting
The furniture has been taken off the counters at Todd and Donna Morse’s house. It’s true that anything can still go wro
Sunday has brought a sense of relief to Riverview Circle, but not a sense of victory. Not quite yet anyway, or at least not to the extent where people seem willing to jinx their improving fortunes.
Fargo flood meeting – 3/29
When you’re in the ‘maintenance’ portion of a flood, you have periods of relative calm punctuated by panic. Within the last few hours, we’ve had two such panic periods, both coming at the same time.
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.
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.