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Flooding in Fargo
Posted: Mar 15, 2010 10:05 AM
Updated: Mar 15, 2010 10:05 AM
Police are escorting truck convoys carrying sandbags into the lowest areas of Fargo, N.D. because the Red River is rising rapidly.
The river in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota is expected to crest on Saturday about 20 feet above flood stage and 3 feet below last year's record crest. City and county officials held an emergency meeting Monday after the National Weather Service bumped up its flood crest forecast because of warm weather and rain. Officials mapped out plans to deliver sandbags and build clay levees.
Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker says the city is prepared to hold back the water. But he says "the emphasis has changed dramatically."
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