Please Pray For The People Of Minot ND June 24, 2011
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This graph is not updatable, but is the most recent I have been able to find. I will update here as often as I find new information.(Click on the graphic to enlarge it)
The news only tells half the story. Here is a link to the local TV station and their continuing coverage. As you look at the graph above, you can see the reality. the bottom line is a flood stage, and the “major” line indicates “major flooding” above “normal” flooding. As you can see, there is a line for “record stage,” and it has been far overtopped.
My son and his family live the area, but are safe, but all roads into Minot are closed to any passenger traffic. They report that people are helping stragers, sharing homes, garages, RV’s, and space for storage. There is no looting, and in the stores that can remain open, stock is still on the shelves. People are buying what they need, but “leaving some for others.”
This flood is not just “major.” It isn’t even due to crest before Sunday. It is going to be catastrophic. The last time I looked at the TV feed, the estimate was over 4,000 homes under water at least to the first floor.
Those folks will be just fine, just as long as the feds stay far, far away in DC. Keep the corruption down in the District of Corruption and all will be well in Minot (even if it is a bit damp!).
We do, however, need to seize control of the Corp and the operation of the rivers. This foolishness of letting idiots in DC decide to destroy the farm lands of the nation has to stop.
Amen! This was a bizarre weather year for the upper midwest. Heavy snowfall winter. Late, large snowfalls in March, early heat, and lots of fast melt/runoff overwhelmed everybody in the region, including Canada. That is where the majority of this floodwater has come from. They had three dams that needed to be released, and poor ol’ Minot (directly downriver) only had one piddly one. Minot had already been evacuated and flooded a couple of weeks before. People who were evacuated returned, only to be told to evacuate again, and not to expect to come back to anything recognizable.
The flood has crested and begun to recede, but, of course, the damage has been done. The water in the low areas will have to be pumped away.
One of the things this has done has been to make my kids (son and daughter-in-law) very proud of the people they live among, and that much more determined to stay, and to do as much shopping as they can in the Minot area, just to help. I have a feeling this is a pretty common attitude there.
P.S. Bismarck, the capitol, is in the flood path of the big Missouri flood. Poor N.D. NOT a good year for them.
Notice nothing from the WH or FEMA about this?
Of course with it being in “White Rural America” it goes without saying Obama, his lapdogs and the lamestream media won’t give a crap.
Good thing Midwesterner’s tend to take care of problems and each other on their own.
What I like about living in “Flyover” Country…
Yes, they don’t wish to be bothered with people in flyover country. Remember the treatment Texas got when they applied for federal disaster aid after their devastating wildfires earlier this year? More of the same for the people of Minot, I fear. Well, I also believe North Dakotans are able to take care of themselves and each other without the government. (Probably be much better for them if they DON’T get federal aid, come to think of it…)