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From Saturday's Globe and Mail April 18, 2009 at 2:58 AM EDT ST...She can't help but lie awake thinking of the capricious river stalking past her front gate, her light posts, her little oak patch, right up to the delicate sandbag dike she hastily raised...
Tags: Winnipeg, Red River Valley, Canadian Red Cross, water levels, Manitoba
Friday morning, Katz told CBC television that he was âhoping today that the worst will be over with the cresting. âBut we've thought that a few other times and nature has always thrown us a curve ball.â He said the city would still need volunteers...
Tags: Winnipeg Sun, St. Winnipeg, Manitoba Emergency Measures, Mayor Sam Katz, Red River Valley, Steve Ashton, minister steve
Red River floodway in Winnipeg, so officers are going to start making people pay. Starting Saturday, the Mounties plan to hand out tickets to anyone deemed to be a nuisance in the area. Curiosity seekers have been ignoring road closures to get a glimpse...
Tags: Winnipeg, Red River Valley, ice jam, Selkirk
So far, at least, the late-winter storm roaring in from the west has fizzled into little more than drizzle in the Twin Cities. The morning commute was barely complicated by wind-whipped rain that was dousing the metro area. But depending on when the rain...
Tags: Red River Valley
Just as the threat of historic floods decreased in parts of North Dakota, a major snowstorm continued to smack the area Tuesday, forecasters said. Residents in and around Fargo, North Dakota, breathed a sigh of relief Monday as waters of Red River had...
Tags: Fargo, North Dakota, Red River Valley, N.D, wet snow
The Red River dipped below 40 feet for the first time in three days Sunday in Fargo-Moorhead. But a brewing snowstorm, a swamped school and the start of an overwhelming cleanup kept any euphoria in check. Schools, colleges, many nonessential businesses...
Tags: Fargo-Moorhead, National Weather Service, Fargo City, North Dakotans, Minnesota, winds gust, Red River Valley, service meteorologist, snow storms, winter storms
N.D. President Barack Obama declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding late Tuesday. In eastern North Dakota, Fargo residents are rushing to build dikes to head off a Red River flood crest of 39 to 41 feet on Friday.
Tags: North Dakota Photo, Manitoba Water Stewardship, ice jamming, Barack Obama, Red River Valley, cross volunteers, Lee County Red Cross, Local Red Cross, American Red Cross
A storm system moving into North Dakota on Sunday increased the flood threat in the Red River Valley, and officials in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., issued urgent pleas for volunteers to help with sandbagging. They lined up football players,...
Tags: Fargo, Red River Valley, million sandbags, N.D, North Dakota, flooding threat, Moorhead Mayor Mark Voxland, Western Minnesota, city officials, National Weather Service
Canadian communities along the Red River in southern Manitoba are under a serious flood warning threat and busy making sandbags and breaking ice jams. A winter's worth of heavy snow in North Dakota and the spring thaw are swelling the north-running river...
Tags: Red River Valley, Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg