Waiting....

The Red River at Pembina is at 41.9 ft today and at Neche the Pembina River is 20.64 ft. We thought it would be coming up on Highway 18 at Neche by now but it hasn't. Every flood is different. They have lowered the crest predictions for Fargo and other points south. It is too soon to predict a number for us but the National Weather Service does say it should happen between May 8th and 11th.

There was a meeting of the flood committee this afternoon. About 30 people attended. Kyle Dorion and Ron Monette are the committee chairmen. I guess at this point it's a waiting game. The committee will meet again on Friday.

Today's picture is of the motocross track on the north side of the Pembina dike.

Sunday Morning

A few people closed the flood gate and sandbagged this culvert yesterday. Good thing they didn't wait until today!

Saturday Morning

This morning the river at Pembina is at 32 ft. Most of the ice is gone on the Pembina River but there is still ice in the Red.

Red River at boat dock

Pembina River looking north from bridge

Pembina River looking south from bridge

Looking north toward the Red River Bridge

A dozen volunteers met at the Pembina Golf Course this morning to move some equipment to higher ground and move golf carts out of So. Pembina. They tired to remove the covers from the greens but it was a little too windy. They'll try again in the next day or two.

Getting things ready to sandbag a culvert.

Neche

This afternoon students and teachers from North Border Pembina HS spent a couple hours in Neche filling sand bags. The Pembina River at Neche is expected to reach it's highest level the middle of next week. The weather was beautiful here today and the work crew enjoyed being outside.

http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/17576/

1 Month Later

Still a lot of snow around. This morning it was 14 degrees outside when I went for a walk. There was no wind so it really was a beautiful morning. I walked across to South Pembina and I could hear the water running over the dam. The ice on the river is beginning to break up.

I also took another picture of the front of our house so you can see how much snow is left.

The National Weather Service upped their predictions earlier this week. The link in the first blog entry will take you to the updated forecast. Now we just wait to see what happens to the south and west of us.