Sirens Blare as Flooding Hits North Dakota

[Fledermaus]

Is North Dakota up stream from Nebraska?

Sirens are blaring at this moment in Minot, N.D., as the overflowing Souris River floods over the top of local levees five hours before the evacuation deadline for 11,000 residents. Farther south, the overflowing Missouri River has put two nuclear power plants at risk, necessitated evacuations and produced a travel nightmare as interstate highways shut down.

"What I see right now is probably the most devastating in terms of the number of people directly impacted and what will likely be the damage to homes as the water begins to overtop the levees and fill in behind," National Guard Cmdr. Dave Sprynczynatyk said today.

Nearly 500 North Dakota National Guard soldiers are in the town of 41,000 people to help the last stragglers in the affected area get out of harm's way. They are accompanying the roaring sirens with shouts of "All residents must evacuate!"

http://abcnews.go.com/US/minot-north-dakota-levees-over...

[Swede]

1. The Souris flows down into the US then back up into Canada.

Lots of rain,and the ground is aleady saturated,plus winter run off.

[bananas]

2. Minot is where armed nuclear warheads were loaded onto a jet headed for Iraq

There was a lot of suspician that it wasn't an accident.
http://www.google.com/search?q=minot+nuclear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_For...

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[Sherman A1]

4. I hope that everyone can get out safely

This is a tragic event in a year of tragic events.