Flooding on the Minnesota/North Dakota border
 

Source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200..._flooding.html

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Stu McKay, owner of Cats on the Red outfitters, surveys the ice jam from his business's deck about just north of Lockport Manitoba,Canada, Thursday, March 26, 2009. Homeowners in some Manitoba communities are expecting the worst and hoping for the best as ice-clogged culverts, ice jams and the rising Red River continue to threaten dozens of homes, just like its threatening towns and homes in North Dakota and Minnesota. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press-Wayne Glowacki)

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Large sheets of ice jam the swollen Missouri River north of Bismarck, N.D. on Wednesday March 25, 2009. Extensive flooding in low lying areas is forcing residents in communities close to the river to evacuate. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Tom Stromme)

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Maleah Johnson (left), Cassie Wastweet (center) and Richard Lewis, all seniors at Barnesville High School in Barnesville, Minnesota, help build a levee to save homes from the rising Red River March 25, 2009 in Oxbow, North Dakota. Most of the schools and many businesses in the area have been closed so the students and workers could help in the volunteer effort to prepare the area for flooding. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Russ Richards adds a sandbag onto the dike surrounding his home in Fargo, North Dakota, March 26, 2009. The dike protects the house from the flooding Red River. (REUTERS/Eric Miller)

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A North Dakota National Guard truck passes John Carlson as he wades from his home March 26, 2009 in Oxbow, North Dakota. Water from the Red and Wild Rice Rivers has begun to overtake the small community about 15 milies south of Fargo. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Volunteers help place sandbags outside the home of Jeremy Kuipers in Moorhead, Minn., Tuesday, March 24, 2009. (AP Photo/The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Richard Tsong-Taatarii)

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Karen Thoreson (left) and Clarence Sitter (right) help arrange sandbags around a house which borders the flooding Red River in Fargo, North Dakota, March 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Eric Miller)

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National Guard members and volunteers fill mountains of sand bags at the Bismarck Civic Center on Thursday, March 26, 2009, in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Bismarck Tribune, Will Kincaid)

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Zach Boor, age 12, whose face is splattered with mud, passes a sandbag down the line as he joined college students to help build a dike along the north side of Rose Coulee Monday, March 23, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. Boor was excused from classes at Discovery Middle School so he could join thousands of other volunteers to build dikes to protect the city from the flooding Red River. (AP Photo/The Forum, Dave Wallis)

this will be richmond one day! glad I'm on high ground.


good pics. sucks for those people. and soon for manatoba.

What I don't understand is why ppl rebuild after something like this happens.

Like people who live in "Tornado Alley" and their house gets destroyed, then they rebuild it in the same place, and continue to live there, then it happens again. MOVE!

so true...

the fraser river is due for a flood..

might happen if the glacier melts fast enough

Poor people lack the resources to simply "move". They live where land is cheap. The land is cheap because of the risk of natural disasters. Therefore, they have limited options.

For some people, home is home, no matter what kind of shit goes down. Communities that go through events like this are generally very tight knit, and probably great places to raise families etc. They don't suffer from the anonymity and hostility of a lot of other cities.