Red River update

River Crests, and Fargo Averts Danger for Now

Excerpt:

Frigid temperatures unexpectedly slowed the rising waters here Saturday, offering a hopeful but still uncertain sign to a city that had raced for daysto hold back the Red River by piling sand on top of sand on top of sand.

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Still, the water levels near both this city of 90,000 and Moorhead, Minn., just across the river, remained higher Saturday afternoon than they have ever been recorded here before, and were likely to stay nearly as swollen for days, gurgling precariously close to the tops of the miles and miles of dikes people created.

Comment: Our Son (6 years the the USMC) joined the Minnesota National Guard in January. He is on watch to be going to the flood zone. He packed all of his gear up yesterday.