Would you trust a stranger who backed into your driveway and offered to haul your worldly possessions to high ground? Lot’s of people along the Souris river apparently did.
The Souris River is slowly retreating in Minot, N.D., where the river peaked early Sunday at levels not seen in more than a century. About 4,000 homes are flooded and a quarter of the town’s 40,000 residents are displaced.
Nearly four years after heavy rains and flash floods destroyed much of Rushford, Minn., residentgs and congregants of Emmanuel Episcopal Church will gather for a dedicate its restored pipe organ.
Republican U.S. Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota wants to change a rule that prohibits a permanent flood dike where FEMA money is spent to buy a flood prone home.