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Red River Flooding.... (pg. 2)
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| gehzumteufel |
| I don't get what the big deal about living on a flood plain is unless you live in an area that is not prepared for this . Prepared as in houses on stilts, enough food and to last you two weeks without contact with the outside world, a boat to get around in this time, etc. |
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| Cpt.Cocaine |
| quote: | Originally posted by Scoops
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Weather dog is unimpressed. |
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| Sushipunk |
| I thought this thread would be about menstruation. |
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| tubularbills |
the flooding that is ocucring is not because of just some river cresting...the red river actually flows northward in that part of the country. so when the snowpack in the south melts, it moves north down the river. well, the north part of the river isn't melted...so the water rolls OVER the ice, instead of just with the regular flow. plus you add the nasty blizzard they got earlier in this year and it makes it a lot worse.
this is similar to the iowa floods last summer; but during the winter. its not something that *always* happens. but when it does, it sucks bad. |
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| La5eR |
From a first hand experience up there since I am an NDSU student and have had classes canceled for the 2nd week in a row it is not good but the community has come together quite nicely though.
Here are some facts and figures:
-Dominos, Pizza Hut, and Papa-Johns have donated close to 5000 pizzas to the cause
-Sam's club has donated well over 1500$ worth of food
-Buffalo wild wings has donated 750$ of wings to the event
-There have been 4 million sand bags made
-All the hamburger meat has been sold out for the last 4 days within a 22km radius of the Fargo-Moorhead area.
-The water treatment plant in Fargo is still running at optimal levels although they are putting more chemicals into the water.
I will tell you something though, lugging around sandbags is a good work out and builds your upper body strength. It is amazing to see the river that high as well since I was helping bag a levee that was up to the 2nd floor of some of the condos there in Fargo. For your foreigners this is what true America is like, we can and do come together to protect our own. I have clocked 30 hours so far with the effort in helping out.
The locations of the Fargo-Dome, Sandbag central, and Nemzech hall have been just hoping. The sandbags do help ALOT, and for you environment peoples out there the material used to make the bag part of the sandbag are 100% biodegradable due in part to research done by the Ag-depts of UND(Grand forks), NDSU(Fargo), MSUM(Moorhead), and NDSCS(Valley city).
So far there have only been 4 levee breeches that I know of that have all been shored up or backed up by the contingency dikes made. Any further questions I can answer for you as well. |
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| jpisani |
| What do they do with the sandbags once the water levels recede? It seems like the National Guard should just keep them in tact and put em on a truck so that they won't have to go through the whole filling and shoveling thing again. |
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| La5eR |
Since the bag's material is bio-degradable over time they just take the bags and dump them into the pit that was made to excavate the sand in the first place but with EPA standards.
Theyll first line the pit that the sand was excavated from with a more bio-resistant lining that takes longer to degrade than the bags material. They will then dump the whole bags into the pit and add some bacteria and other micro-organisms to break down the bag material. After about a year or so the micro-organisms will have digested and removed all contaminants the natural way. FEMA, the Guard, and the residents take care of the clean-up. So far there are no plans on using the college and highschool population to help with the clean up but that may change since the FM area is to receive another foot of snow in the next 2 days risking a 2nd crest. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by La5eR
From a first hand experience up there since I am an NDSU student and have had classes canceled for the 2nd week in a row it is not good but the community has come together quite nicely though.
Here are some facts and figures:
-Dominos, Pizza Hut, and Papa-Johns have donated close to 5000 pizzas to the cause
-Sam's club has donated well over 1500$ worth of food
-Buffalo wild wings has donated 750$ of wings to the event
-There have been 4 million sand bags made
-All the hamburger meat has been sold out for the last 4 days within a 22km radius of the Fargo-Moorhead area.
-The water treatment plant in Fargo is still running at optimal levels although they are putting more chemicals into the water.
I will tell you something though, lugging around sandbags is a good work out and builds your upper body strength. It is amazing to see the river that high as well since I was helping bag a levee that was up to the 2nd floor of some of the condos there in Fargo. For your foreigners this is what true America is like, we can and do come together to protect our own. I have clocked 30 hours so far with the effort in helping out.
The locations of the Fargo-Dome, Sandbag central, and Nemzech hall have been just hoping. The sandbags do help ALOT, and for you environment peoples out there the material used to make the bag part of the sandbag are 100% biodegradable due in part to research done by the Ag-depts of UND(Grand forks), NDSU(Fargo), MSUM(Moorhead), and NDSCS(Valley city).
So far there have only been 4 levee breeches that I know of that have all been shored up or backed up by the contingency dikes made. Any further questions I can answer for you as well. |
that's cool to hear man. good for you for helping out; and not just sitting around on your roof waving a "help me" flag. |
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| bas |
Barrack Obama doesn't care about white people
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| digitalbreach |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Barrack Obama doesn't care about white people
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bwhahahahahha..
timeless
why doesn't kan-ye die already? |
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