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Southeast Minnesota has tapped most of itsstate recovery aid from the 2007 flood, but the dollars aren’t allspent. In fact, the remaining funds should fuel a road-repair boomin the region three years after the disaster.
Southeast Minnesota has tapped most of itsstate recovery aid from the 2007 flood, but the dollars aren’t allspent. In fact, the remaining funds should fuel a road-repair boomin the region three years after the disaster.
The United States Department of Agriculture announced this week the designation of 24 North Dakota counties as primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by the combined effects of drought, frost, cool temperatures, excessive rain and late-season snowfall, flooding, hail, and weather-related losses from insects and disease that occurred this year.
North Dakota National Guard troops are accustomed to dealing with floods, fires, tornadoes and blizzards.
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Court documents show that as many as half of the flood arrest cases in Fargo-Moorhead last spring have been dismissed.
Warmer winters, wetter springs and more flooding along riverfront communities in Illinois may become the norm, according to Wes Jarrell. “The time for debate about global warming is over,” he said. “It’s not a matter of opinion. It’s a...
It's an enduring image from southeast Minnesota's 2007 floods:Winona County Sheriff Dave Brand juggling three cell phones thatwere ringing because his radios weren't working.
MOORHEAD, Minn., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Leaders of Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., are moving to support a $962 million flood control plan for the Red River, observers say.
When disaster struck in 1997 and the Spring Creek Flood killed five Fort Collins residents, CSU climatologist Nolan Doesken felt he could have potentially saved lives by getting a warning out sooner.
On MormonTimes.com:As National Guard members in North and South Dakota battled rising waters near Jamestown, N.D., earlier...