Sandbagged

The flooding Missouri River in Bismarck is on the way down, now the sandbags have to be taken down...

And I am beat...
Our friends to the north did not fair so well...

Missouri River Flood

Water, water everywhere...
Bismarck ND home sinks.

Video here.
The city of Minot, 100 miles to the north is in big trouble too.

Big Water All Summer

I hope all the dikes hold, it is a tremendous amount of water for a very long time.

Some great aerial pictures.

Missouri River Carves A Wider Channel

Increased flows are widening the channel, this is why its not rising as much as first thought....





Tip of the hat to Say Anything.

The Last Sandbag(hopefully)

The inlet bays have been diked by the Corp Of Engineers and the National Guard, and we have the yutes house sandbagged to 24'. I am beat again...

Next week the big water comes...

More Flood Views

The Missouri River will rise 4-5 more feet by next week...



Shot by NDNationalGuard.

The Floodgates Open(Updated)

For the first time in its history, the spillway gates at Garrison Dam have opened...



Update:
All 28 gates will open

View From A Blackhawk

Hopefully the folks who visit here are not tiring of my local news. A clip here from a guardsman taken in a blackhawk two day ago. Around the 5:00 mark across the bridge to the right is the marina bay, southport, lakewood area where the daughter and son in law have a home. That bridge is closed now except for construction people and national guard building dikes. Keep in mind this was two days ago. The water is rising daily and will for many more days.

 


It is getting harder to get pictures as the national guard is limiting traffic in areas with high water.

Flood Update

This thing is going to last a long time...

As of 4:30 PM Tuesday, here is the Garrison release schedule.

Planned releases are subject to change based on changing reservoir and river conditions:

Wednesday AM - 92,500 cfs
Wednesday PM - 100,000 cfs
Note: Controlled Spillway Releases Start Wed.

Thursday AM - 105,000 cfs
Thursday PM - 110,000 cfs

Friday - 115,000 CFS

Saturday Hold At 115,000

Mid June, going to 150,000 cfs

At 150,000 cfs the river stage at Bismarck is forecast to be at 20.6 feet, or 4.69` higher than it is right now. Plan for a 1 foot buffer on all dikes according to officials.

They say they will have to use the spillway gates to release all this water, but it WILL be controlled. The spillway has never been used since the dam opened back in the 1950s.

And our friends up north in Minot are having trouble too.

More Flooding

It may or may not be of interest to some...
I am not trying to compare other disasters, the folks in Joplin had very little warning of the nightmare that occurred there. The folks in Fargo go through this every year...It happened on the Mississippi earlier.
Bismarck to my knowledge has not seen this since 1952, the year before the Garrison Dam was finished.
This water level is at 80,000 cfs coming out of the dam, 150,000 cfs is a shocking number to me.

Trying To Beat The Odds

A few pictures of how high we are being told the water will be in the next few days( in the daughter and son in laws neighborhood) according to the Army Core of Engineers. I will have more later, I am whipped...

Some have already lost the battle and the big releases from the Garrison dam don't start until 
tomorrow.

Current release is 80,000 cfs
Monday May 30th 85,000 cfs
Wednesday June 1st 105,000 cfs
Thursday June 2nd 120,000 cfs and hold at this rate for about a week.

150,000 cfs is expected to happen at an un-announced date.

Going Sandbagging (Updated)

Some folks need help.
This is what is headed this way...



Be back later.
Update:
Big flood headed this way, that clip does not do justice to what is headed here. The corp of engineers say they need to double the release of that dam and will open those spillway gates for the first time since the dam was built. Many homes are going under. I will try to post some picture tomorrow.