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Red River becomes the Red Sea

Article by: BILL McAULIFFE , Star Tribune
Updated: April 11, 2011 - 11:00 AM

The Red has crested and will stay there a while, but months of preparation in the cities of Fargo and Moorhead were paying off.

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lubug2Apr. 10, 11 8:28 PM

This doesn't make sense to me: "to rural areas north of the north-flowing river." If areas were north of the river, they would be somewhere in Hudson Bay (above where the Red empties into Lake Winnipeg). Sounds like this should have said "farther north along the north-flowing river."

charles3Apr. 11, 11 6:25 AM

So MOVE. This is a very tiring story year after year after year.........

epeddieApr. 11, 11 7:34 AM

"So MOVE. This is a very tiring story year after year after year........." ------------------------------------------------------ Not so easy to do. To move would mean buying an additional property with little hope for selling the current one. Most folks can't afford to do this.

nobamain2012Apr. 11, 11 7:35 AM

Why are you telling me to move from my home. I'm so sick of you people thinking that moving is the answer. We don't ask to be in the news for this. We may have flood problems, but at least we have the money to fight it. I'd rather my state deal with a flood than a $5 billion deficit. Good luck with that.

EP1955gApr. 11, 11 8:01 AM

Keep ditching and tiling.

nodaker1Apr. 11, 11 8:03 AM

Here's my prediction for next year so everyone has adequate time to prepare and no one gets surprised: The Red River is going to flood. In fact, it will also flood in 2013, 2014.....

zenofskyApr. 11, 11 9:05 AM

Why the eff would anybody want to move there in the first place?!

packer86Apr. 11, 11 9:09 AM

The sad reality is that the Star Trib readers that CONSTANTLY post comments like, "move, this happens every year" are more annoying than actually dealing with the flooding. You can see the headline before you read the article (thats what makes headlines so amazing), if you don't want to read about the flooding, don't click the link and don't leave a comment. Frankly those of us in the valley don't care about your opinion to move. It floods and we deal with it. Hopefully these recently annual, but OVERALL rare flood events will soon stop and we'll have our peaceful valley back.

deaswaApr. 11, 11 9:19 AM

When you have rain, rain, rain, in the fall and have snow, snow, snow in the winter, this is what you have, very saturated soil that can't take any more moisture such as the spring thaw. For those people who farm, you have to have ditches. For those who tile and I don't think there is a big percentage up north, it may help in the fall, but it does nothing to the spring thaw, They are still frozen, if there was water in them, when the snow melts off and goes to the ditches, rivers, etc. Our frost is just coming out now.