"Fargo residents have been scrambling in subfreezing temperatures.... an estimated 6,000 volunteers who endured temperatures below 20 degrees"
But, but, but, it is spring?
Oh, I SEE WHY now. You don't expect a GLOBAL-WARMING AGENDA-PUSHER to EMPHASIZE that, do ya?
They ain't telling you it's still freezing here in New England, at least, out h're where ya can't get there from h're!!!!
It is times like these that make me wonder how many other things are going on, and why I am wasting my time here not finding out about them.
What else is the Globe HIDING and CONCEALING (or lying about) from us amongst the many items I alone document?
"Red River could crest at 43 feet; Fargo residents raise city dikes, evacuate homes" by Nate Jenkins and Dave Kolpack, Associated Press | March 27, 2009
FARGO, N.D. - Officials ordered the evacuation of one neighborhood and a nursing home last night after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee holding back the rising Red River.
Great, it's also another censored, 'er, reedited, 'er, updated, yeah, that's right, article (sigh).
Residents were not in immediate danger, and floodwaters were not flowing over the levee, Mayor Dennis Walaker said. The evacuation was being enforced as a precaution.
Officers were going door to door to the roughly 40 homes in the River Vili neighborhood and were evacuating Riverview Estates nursing home. Authorities also called for the voluntary evacuation of about 1,000 people who live between the main dikes and backups in various parts of the city. That evacuation could become mandatory, officials said.
Authorities across the river in Moorhead, Minn., also increased evacuations yesterday. They recommended that residents leave the southwest corner of the city and a low-lying township to the north. Fargo residents have been scrambling in subfreezing temperatures to pile sandbags along the Red River. They spent much of yesterday preparing for a record crest of 41 feet -- only to have forecasters add up to 2 feet to their estimate....
As the struggle continued in Fargo, the threat in the state capital of Bismarck was receding. A day after explosives were used to attack an ice jam on the Missouri River south of the city of 59,000, the river had fallen by 2.5 feet. At least 1,700 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas of town....--more--"
Had to go to the web to get the article staring me in the face. Thanks, Globe, for making me waste more time.
I always wonder why the MSM pooh-bahs down there wanna whack the suffering of people when they saw the ax and grind the violin for their agenda-pushing favorites?
"Flood forecast: New crest at Fargo up to 43 feet
The National Weather Service has raised its Red River crest forecast at Fargo to as much as 43 feet as North Dakota's largest city struggles to protect itself from potentially disastrous flooding....
Thousands of volunteers who have been piling sandbags for days scrambled to add another foot to Fargo's dike protection, and official briefings lost the jokes and quips that had broken the tension earlier in the week. Instead, Thursday's meeting opened with a prayer.
"We need all the help we can get," Mayor Dennis Walaker said. The city of 92,000 unveiled a contingency evacuation plan Thursday afternoon, but at least four nursing homes already had begun moving residents by then....
The sandbag-making operation at the Fargodome churned as furiously as ever, sending fresh bags out to an estimated 6,000 volunteers who endured temperatures below 20 degrees in the race to sandbag to 43 feet. Leon Schlafmann, Fargo's emergency management director, said he was confident they would succeed by the end of Thursday.
"I was skeptical as far as volunteers coming out today, but they're like mailmen," Schlafmann said. "They come out rain, sleet or shine." Schlafmann also said he is confident the dikes will hold even through several days of high water. "We might lose a neighborhood or a few homes, but we won't lose the whole city," he said.
Similar sandbagging was under way across the river in Moorhead, Minn., where some homes in a low-lying northern township had already flooded. The city was setting up a shelter at its high school after calling for voluntary evacuations in a southern section.
As the struggle continued in Fargo, the threat in the state capital of Bismarck was receding. A day after explosives were used to attack an ice jam on the Missouri River south of the city of 59,000, the river had fallen by 2 1/2 feet. At least 1,700 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas of town before the river began to fall.
Crews were rescuing stranded residents in rural areas south of Fargo. On Wednesday, 46 people were rescued by airboat from 15 homes, and Cass County Sheriff Paul D. Laney said early Thursday that he had received 11 more evacuation requests from homeowners.
As the river crept perilously close to houses built along the Red, residents held out hope that the final sandbagging effort would work. The southern parts of the city, mostly residential areas, were seen as most vulnerable, and the city was building contingency dikes behind the main dike in some areas.
Dick Bailly, 64, choked up as he looked out over his backyard dike at the river. Like other residents, Bailly thought the 41.5-foot height that many dikes were built to in recent days would be enough. That was before the National Weather Service, after days of projecting the crest at 39 to 41 feet, settled on the higher number Wednesday.
The river was almost 39 feet by midday Thursday and was expected to crest Saturday....
I guess the Globe couldn't ignore it any longer.
"It was demoralizing this morning," Bailly said, his eyes welling. "We got a lot of work to do. People have the will to respond, but you can only fight nature so much, and sometimes nature wins."
This guy has it way worse than I do; however, I can empathize with the feeling since I get it everyday I start peeling open a Boston Globe.
On a sandbag line behind another house near the river, 65-year-old Will Wright, a veteran of Fargo floods, helped stack bags as water began to seep through his homemade dike. Like others, he said he was confident the dike would hold - for a while. "The big concern I have is the river crest staying three to five days and it testing the integrity of these sandbags," Wright said... .
Fargo's rush to sandbag eliminated a complication caused by the subfreezing weather. Sandbags had gotten frozen earlier in the week, making them difficult to stack tightly together; people were seen slamming bags to the ground to break them up.Now the sandbags are moving too fast to freeze....
Forbes even added this:
In Moorhead, both entrances to the Crystal Creek development were flooded, leaving Deb and Scott Greelis thinking about how they and their kids - ages 6, 2 and 6 months - could get out if things get much worse.
"We are pretty much stuck in here," Deb Greelis said. But she said they could haul the kids in a sled to a nearby highway on higher ground if they need to evacuate.
On the Canadian side of the Red River, in Manitoba, ice-clogged culverts, ice jams and the rising river also threatened residents. At least 40 homes were evacuated in communities north of Winnipeg and several dozen houses were flooded as water spilled onto the flat landscape.
"We're in for probably the worst two weeks that this community has ever seen in its entire existence," said St. Clements Mayor Steve Strang. The region's emergency services coordinator, Paul Guyader, said water levels in the area were dropping but residents are not letting their guard down: The Red River crest threatening North Dakota isn't expected to arrive in Manitoba for another week.
The Globe is proving itself to be a garbage paper more and more each and every day. I guess that's the reason I bought one. They may not be out there much longer, nor should they be.Update: Blizzard conditions close Texas Panhandle highways
Global warming, yup.
