Finally getting a picture up the same day it was taken...
Friday, March 27th, 2009. Day 5 of the series. Fargo (75 miles south and upriver) reached record levels today, surpassing 40.1' that was the previous record. they are expecting a crest in the next 24-48 hours of 42-43' . fargo is protected by sandbags (and only sandbags) to 43'. here in Grand Forks, the river passed 48' last night with a projected crest of 52-53'
in the pictures (which were hard to get, local authorities are not letting people on the Dike since 7 PM last evening, you gotta be sneaky... I ran up the hill, focused, 4 pics, ran down, never even saw the river outside the viewfinder) you can see the the water is at the bridge deck, the ends are now submerged. if there were no dike, the down town streets would be about 2 feet deep.
The flood marker now only has two years left on it, and behind, you can see the water up to the wall on the Minnesota side (Minnesota built their dike after North Dakota built theirs, and added state dollars to the federal ones to built their side to withstand 60', 3 feet higher than the grand forks side that protects to 57'.
you can now start to see why I left so much foreground in the early pics.
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