Bob Collins
What happens to sandbags after a flood? And why do TV reporters insist on standing in waist-deep water?
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Tag: Disasters
Youth may be wasted on the young, but the young aren’t wasting it this week in Moorhead and Fargo. If it weren’t for college, high school, and junior high school students, these cities would already be under water. Many of them returned from spring break to help out. When the experts said they needed to Read more →
Saving Riverview Circle — Part one
Live- blogging: Fargo’s flood meeting
(Moorhead) – This area picked up another half inch of rain in the last 12 hours, the last thing it needed. But is snow and cold temperatures a good or a bad thing?The meteorologists say the cold will slow the snow melt, but also make it harder to stuff sandbags. We’re heading out in a Read more →
Volunteers scurry to build a floodwall and a dike across the main entry into the city from North Dakota as the Red River reaches in Breckenridge, Minnesota.
Flooded highway
The flood is a disaster waiting to happen in Fargo and Moorhead. It’s already arrived in Breckenridge, Minn.
Social networking sites have become the primary means for the call for volunteers to help fight the flooding along the Red River.
I’m heading for the west-central region of Minnesota today, stopping first in Breckenridge and then on to Moorhead. If you’re in the area, I’d like to stop and chat with you.
The Red River will flood next week at levels not seen since 1997. Is it likely to be as severe as the great flood of ’97?
The chances are good that you’re not flying on the airline you think you’re flying on, and that’s just how the airlines want it.