There have been rumors for a couple of months now about if we were going to flood or we weren't going to flood. The National Weather Service has said that there is a high chance that it will still flood in Western, West-Central, and in the south-central part of the state even with the recent dry spell. The Fargo city officials have released a flood evacuation guide to the public that is available on the internet. Midwest prepares for flood:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hEb9pIxit5rnCSvNw60nuuD-O46QD9E8JI201
It also said that the flood risk is lower than it was 2 weeks ago, but the risk could go up again with more snow or rain. The Corps spokesperson has released a statement, the two dikes present no immediate danger to the public, but the corps will implement risk-reduction measures at both areas to warrant if there is more work that is needed. The measures will include updated emergency action plans and training exercises. Here is a Video on last year’s flood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmAWmOV-W64
Pomeroy stated that he is more worried about severe flood protection than his upcoming re-election in November. In this article it says the National Weather Service is expecting it to flood on the James and Sheyenne rivers. Rich Scheuneman the Bald Hill Dam manager, showed Pomeroy and the city official’s airborne views of the Upper Basin of the Sheyenne that show the snow pack and moisture content are close in relation to last year. On Friday there was another flood forecast released for our region.
http://www.newsdakota.com/favicon.ico
In preparation of the next flood, citizens of Fargo have been sandbagging since March 1st, and are getting them stockpiled just in case of another serious flood. Inmates, city officials, and volunteers are part of the people that have been doing this. Fargo is at risk for 90% flooding, and 19% record flooding. I from experience have sandbagged quite a bit last year around Fargo and my friend’s homes. This year in Valley City I believe that we should be getting ready now considering that a flood warning is on March twenty third. If we can get students out working and helping early it will make the future easier. People always talk about how bad it will be. Why don’t we play it safe and get bags ready now and dikes build up to where they were last year. I know it sounds dumb in a way but I was always raised to the motto better safe than sorry.
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I agree with preparing early. Every one is sitting around here and saying it is a good possibility that it will flood, but no one is doing anything. After what Valley city went through last year you would think that they would be concerned about preparing. I guess maybe they are taking chances and holding off on recruiting people and sandbagging until the warning worsens.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you both, we should be preaparing already before we are in over our heads like last year. All of a sudden everything got out of hand and classes were cancled so students would help sand bag, but we didnt start early enough which led to the evacuation of the campus and online classes, but im not goning to lie i didnt mind getting out of the semester early. I do think its going to flood again and we should be preparing before its too late.
ReplyDeleteI agree we should be preparing early for this flood in Valley City. Since it's going to flood like it did last year why not start earlier and be ahead of the game rather behind. It's been raining and going to possibly snow leaves us a higher chance of flooding. At first, everyone was saying how it was not going to flood, but the other half says it is. I guess we will just have to be patient and wait for what mother nature has for us in the future.
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