Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Flooding, Winter Storms, Wind, Snow, Blinding Sun...

Well, just last week the Grand Forks area was in the upper 40s and thawing out from all the snow and ice. We could see all the grass and all but the largest snow piles had melted. Now here is the first time in many years that UND has closed its doors for the entire day due to weather. There was nearly 4 inches last night and more on the way. The drifting was incredible. It took nearly 2 hours, 3 adults, 1 wheel barrow, 1 snow blower, and assorted snow shovels to dig out the driveway.
Fargo to our south and upstream is sandbagging like crazy in anticipation of a near-record flood water height. In Grand Forks, they have closed two of the three bridges and installed all the stop logs in the flood wall through the city. The ice pack is insane and no one knows if we will flood or not.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. Theodore Roosevelt

1 comment:

Los Lowcos said...

Looks like you guys picked the perfect year to move to NoDak! :)

Hope you are able to shovel out soon.