Flooding

Here are some pictures of the Red River Flooding. It actually came up even more after these pictures were taken. Hard to believe.


This is Wells Memorial Park ~ this is where our County Fair is held every year. The river flowed over the dike and filled up the fairgrounds and flooded all of the buildings down there.

The water started coming over the permanent dike here. After the flood of 97 they built this permanent dike and they made slots in the area shown to complete the dike with medal poles and concrete blocks. The next day the water had gone up and it was half way up this wall.

This is a little parking lot and a walking bridge to cross the river to get to the fair grounds. This is right off Minnesota Ave.

It is kind of hard to see in this picture but this is the rail road bridge to get across the river~ it is almost submerged in water. They had to shut down the trains for a few days. They also shut down the Main bridge here going in to Wahpeton and built a clay dike across it.