Flood 2009

New Photo’s Added: [ 4/11/2009 ]

[ 40 pics as of: 4/11/2009 ]

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Flood 2009 | Building Dikes To Buy Time

Flood 2009 | Looking East into Oxbow From Hwy 81

Flood 2009 | Thawing Culverts & Moving Water

Flood 2009 | Thawing Culverts ( 3-23-2009 )

Manning The Pumps

Darren Fitch and neighbors while away time and beers
keeping tabs on pumps and culvert thawing activities.
Melting snow threatened the Jungbergs 821 Meadow Lane home
with with rising water held back by frozen culverts.

Flood 2009 | Bakke Main Outlet Still Frozen ( 4-11-2009 ) Local Hero's Keep Up The Fight For Our Community

Flood 2009 | Main Outlet Still Frozen ( 4-11-2009 )

Bakke’s Main Outlet Still Frozen 4-11-2009

Local Hero’s Ray, Ken & Digger (dog)
keep up the “selfless” fight for the Bakke community.
Ray Holzey assembled a steamer from an old LP tank
that has been designed to bore through ice.
Ray deserves a pat on the back and a few tanks of gas.

Flood 2009 | Coast Guard Boats Used To Rescue Residents

Flood 2009 | Coast Guard Boats To The Rescue

Flood 2009 | Coast Guard - Odd, but Welcome Sight

Mother Nature
The Curse…and Blessing!

Frigid temperatures and “Ice Ridges” along a section of I-29 helped to hold back Wild Rice River waters from crossing I-29 and causing major “over-land flooding” for residents in Bakke subdivision.

Flood 2009 | Curse & Blessing

Flood 2009 | Wild Rice Ice Ridges along I29

Flood 2009 | River That Ignored The Stop Sign

Stop!

Water goes where it pleases…
Does what it pleases…

Without courtesy or regard for those it affects.
Several long time residents in the area commented on how strange and high Red Rive flood waters were and how they impacted homes and roads in 2009. Closure of several county and state road hampered delivery of vital flood supplies. Many sand, gravel & clay delivery trucks has to deal. Extended travel time and muddy side roads created problems with partial loads freezing inside truck dump boxes.

Flood 2009 | US Co Hwy 81 Looking N 1mi S of Cass 16

Okay!…guess we can’t get to town this way!
It’s easy to feel isolated when roads traveled daily…become obstables. Crossing roads inundated with water can be deadly in warm weather. Surviving water that is barely above freezing can be reduced to mere minutes.

Flood 2009 | "Getting to Work" - Redefined!

Being a North Dakotan takes DEDICATION!

Getting to work can pose challenges!

We LOVE to work…

This is NOT the work we like!

Flood 2009 | Sheer Determination of Flood Fighters

Flood 2009 | Delivering Flood Fighters

Flood 2009 | Ferry-ing Sandbags into Oxbow

Flood 2009 Coming Back For Another Load of Sandbags

Flood 2009 | Coming Back For MORE Sandbags

Flood 2009 | Oxbow Ice-Jams ( Panoramic )

Flood 2009 | Unsung Hero's - Help Is On The Way!

Flood 2009 | Unsung Heroes

Unsung Heroes!

Welcomed relief for local battle weary flood fighters! 9 busloads of BIG HEARTED students from Perham HS, Perham Minnesota traveled nearly 90 miles to offer “much appreciated” assistance. Filling sand bags is grueling, relentless work.