..... I was wondering how you were fairing there in Fargo LeAnne cuz I remembered you were from there. Are you close enough to the river to be in any kind of trouble?
My house is high enough that it isn't in danger from the river, even if a dike breaks. However, storm sewers are backed up in parts of town, lots of friends have serious water damage, and there are dikes everywhere. Some sandbag dikes, some clay dikes down the centers of roads, and something called Hesco units (big baskets that pop open and they fill with sand, also used in Iraq/Afghanistan to protect soldiers). There are roughly 5 million sandbgs in use now, with another half million ready to patch breaches.
We have been under a "no travel" rule on and off for several days to allow for trucks hauling sandbags, clay, sand, etc. Of course, 10 inches of snow in the last 24 hours has put a stop to most of the town anyway...
The National Weather Service says that, even though the river has dropped a couple feet and will continue to drop, we will get another crest mid-April that will be about where we are now.
Here's a couple pictures showing what it's like in parts of town. Luckily the town is designed so there are parts that we can allow to flood to protect other parts.
Bottom picture shows a house a little out of town with it's own sandbag dike that broke...
