Fargo Update with Slideshow:
The Red River crested at Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., late last month just short of 41 feet, after volunteers filled thousands of sandbags to raise levees above that mark. The Red's River's second crest at Fargo is projected to reach around 38 feet or 39 feet, slightly lower than earlier forecasts.
"It doesn't look quite as bad as we thought, as far what's coming towards us," Fargo City Commissioner Tim Mahoney said Monday. "But rain could change that."
Guard helps another ND town battle rising river
By DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press Writer – Mon Apr 13, 2009
VALLEY CITY, N.D. – Earthmoving equipment and National Guard helicopters hauled sand Monday to reinforce leaky dikes that led to evacuations in the town threatened by the Sheyenne River, the latest North Dakota stream to rise above its banks.
Twice in 12 hours police had gone knocking on doors, urging people to get out.
"It was just kind of disbelief, actually," said chiropractor Jeff Brown, who lives near one dike that had to be repaired Sunday night. He said he was in his backyard Sunday afternoon when "my daughter stuck her head out the window and said 'Dad, we have to evacuate.'"
Police came around with bullhorns to warn residents "like a scene out of a movie," he said.
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