flood season

being a native to east grand forks minnasota im no newbie when it comes to floods, i was right in the middle of it back in the great flood of 97. im just wondering how many of you have to get ready for this now that spring is comeing? we leanred our lesson and have an impressive dike system around town so im not worried, however towns all around us are going to get hammerd this year as the river has a 80% chance of reaching the level it was at back in 97, do you guys have to deal with this? have you ever been out sandbaging and whatnot? if so please tell your story. ill post some pics here and then tell mine




anyway it started with the blizard of 97 in march or febuary we got seven feet of snow in the span of two weeks, which did not bode well, and when it all started thawing it just hit the fan. i rember m dad telling us to pack us and we grabbed four boxes out of our house, and went out to my uncles, [not the one in the photo] and hunkered down as the dikes were begeining to break, when all was said and done and we got back the house was 25 feet off its foundation, we lived with relatives for the next six months and then we got to move into a temporary fema trailer, after about 5 mouths we moved into our current house, which underwent heavy repair. many people had the same story pretty much tho a few got to reclaim there houses but still, it happened. and we are much more prepared now with a dike system that reaches 64 feet, and the water level during this flood was 51 so i think were pretty well off

edit. random tidbit. the red river of the north as its know is one of only two rivers in the world that flows north

The worst flooding I can recall was during hurricane Floyd here in NJ.

That was pretty bad, and the water was quite high for weeks, but nothing as truly disastrous as you show :o

eh it was quite a few years ago now and you cant see the scars anymore except for a momument, we came back up punching so to say, recoverd quite quickly considering

here in the phils... especially in the Mindanao area, we're being pummelled by wind, rains that suddenly turn heavy, and a continuous downpour turns roads into small canals.

damn, ive seen videos of that on discovery before, dont you get mudslides to when that happens?

I also live in the Philippines but where I'm located, it's a really high place so even if we experience heavy storms, it does not flood.

hnn i see i see, when i started this topic i totaly forgot the possibility of flooding from heavy rains heh, anyone who lives on a river that gets insainly high every spring??

well the mountain paths do if the rain prevails. however, it doesnt rain heavily as it once was.

I used to live in Virginia when I was younger, and we had a drain ditch just behind our fence in the back yard that wasn't actually terribly good at draining, at least not when we got the tail end of the hurricanes every year. It never flooded our house, but only really because of the angle of the land; parts of the yard would get a few feet deep. A few places around town would flood small bits like that pretty much every year, only getting really bad during exceptionally bad storms. A couple times I've seen streets flooded, but usually it's because of shitty drainage systems and roads on land that lends itself to becoming a lake.

Living in Michigan, as I do now, this time of year I'm just hoping for all the damned snow to melt soon.