It is getting interesting....
around here. Yesterday, VCity ordered all non-essential businesses to close and strongly urged people to leave town as the high Sheyenne River put unbelievable stress on it's sanitation system and it collapsed. Projected date for repairs? 30-days. So, my VCity cousins - call me and let me know where you end up staying so that I know you are alright.
They (Army Corps of Engineers) are frantically building a dike/levee system - hopefully to be completed by Sunday, just in time for the dams to reach their overflow capacity. They keep saying that even if it does go through the spillways/overflow, that it won't be a bad thing. I don't know how they can say that, as the water then becomes an "uncontrollable release."
Hubster called me and told me which road I could come home on, then proceeded to tell me that the north bridge over the Pipestem was under water. (The night before the water was on the deck of the bridge). Quite a fast rise, I'd say? I thought he was joking, until we drove other there and took pictures. (All you can see is the guardrails of the bridge).
This picture is of the water by the bridge north of our place 1/2 mile. The water is up to the bottom of the bridge deck and rising. It won't be long and this will be under water also. Fish are swimming upstream through here and in to the creek that runs through our pasture. We have northerns in our pasture! ~L~ Think I'll go get my pole and catch supper!
Remember the road that I took to work the other morning (the one I shouldn't have been on)? I won't be traveling it for the rest of the summer - not because it is under water, but because the Army Corps is taking out the road below the Dam(Trautman's Grove) to make room for the water coming out of Pipestem Dam (the spillway water runs through that valley).
Not good peoples, not good.
I think I'm going to take a cue from my cat Boris and hide!
There is good news about my brother's home. The water has receded about 2 feet from the house now and the water inside the home is gone. He is hesitant about starting any cleanup process until we know what is going to be released from the Resevoir and Pipesteam Dams. The National Guard has been there to help him reinforce some of his sandbagging, which I think is a good thing. Perhaps they can find where the breaches occured and take care of them.
It is a waiting game around here, everyone is nervouse and anxious over what will happen in the next 2-3 days. It won't be over then though - as I'm sure we'll be only breathing a sigh of relief come fall when it freezes. (But then we have to think about snow. Sheeesh!!!)
Screw it. I'm going to go cause chaos and destruction in my kitchen and cook something!
They (Army Corps of Engineers) are frantically building a dike/levee system - hopefully to be completed by Sunday, just in time for the dams to reach their overflow capacity. They keep saying that even if it does go through the spillways/overflow, that it won't be a bad thing. I don't know how they can say that, as the water then becomes an "uncontrollable release."
Hubster called me and told me which road I could come home on, then proceeded to tell me that the north bridge over the Pipestem was under water. (The night before the water was on the deck of the bridge). Quite a fast rise, I'd say? I thought he was joking, until we drove other there and took pictures. (All you can see is the guardrails of the bridge).
This picture is of the water by the bridge north of our place 1/2 mile. The water is up to the bottom of the bridge deck and rising. It won't be long and this will be under water also. Fish are swimming upstream through here and in to the creek that runs through our pasture. We have northerns in our pasture! ~L~ Think I'll go get my pole and catch supper!
Remember the road that I took to work the other morning (the one I shouldn't have been on)? I won't be traveling it for the rest of the summer - not because it is under water, but because the Army Corps is taking out the road below the Dam(Trautman's Grove) to make room for the water coming out of Pipestem Dam (the spillway water runs through that valley).
Not good peoples, not good.
I think I'm going to take a cue from my cat Boris and hide!
There is good news about my brother's home. The water has receded about 2 feet from the house now and the water inside the home is gone. He is hesitant about starting any cleanup process until we know what is going to be released from the Resevoir and Pipesteam Dams. The National Guard has been there to help him reinforce some of his sandbagging, which I think is a good thing. Perhaps they can find where the breaches occured and take care of them.
It is a waiting game around here, everyone is nervouse and anxious over what will happen in the next 2-3 days. It won't be over then though - as I'm sure we'll be only breathing a sigh of relief come fall when it freezes. (But then we have to think about snow. Sheeesh!!!)
Screw it. I'm going to go cause chaos and destruction in my kitchen and cook something!
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