This is Riverview Circle’s response to Moorhead’s Code Red that indicates evacuations are likely. Another pickup with another load of sandbags has just pulled into John Brummer’s garage and another crowd of volunteers has arrived to stack it on the sandbag dike that rings this neighborhood along three miles of shoreline. I asked him if Read more →
As a Code Red was issued this afternoon, signifying an evacuation is possible from Riverview Circle, and the surrounding neighborhoods, the Morses and John Brummer were not giving up.
The Red River can be very sneaky. It took a backdoor approach to get near Donna and Todd Morse’s house today.
With the order to raise the sandbag levee by another foot, I couldn’t imagine having the gumption to get back out and sling sandbags.
You can almost feel collective shoulders of the Fargo-Moorhead area sag when the latest flood projection was issued.
Residents of a Moorhead neighborhood are mostly inside today, but they’re still looking outside, at the river that’s rising faster than anyone has seen here.
Kevan Rehm of Brooklyn Park drove to the Fargo Moorhead area this week to help out. He’s like dozens — perhaps hundreds — of Twin Citians who are here.
The daily briefing of public safety and government officials is underway in Fargo. The mayor of Moorhead, Mark Voxland , has been invited over and both are stressing that neither city ignores the other. 8:04 a.m. – Voxland says they hope to have all the sandbag dikes up to 42 feet today. He credits GPS Read more →
John Brummer of Moorhead is finished with his portion of the giant sandbag dike that snakes along the Red River south from I-94. With any luck at all, he’ll get some sleep soon.
MPR’s Than Tibbetts has sent along this view of the Fargodome, now known as Sandbag Central.
Todd and Donna Morse weren’t around for the Great Flood of 1997 — they lived in Coon Rapids then — but they’ve quickly learned the art of flood protection against a river that has a penchant for taking detours through neighborhoods like theirs in Moorhead. As she stood next to a backyard swimming pool where Read more →
Bob Collins
Live-blogging: Thursday’s flood meeting