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Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker cautiously expressed hope that the river would stay below 44 feet _ the limit of the reinforced dikes. Walaker said there was not enough time to build the levees any higher.

Fargo escaped devastation from flooding in 1997, when Grand Forks was ravaged by a historic flood 70 miles to the north. This year, the river has been swollen by heavier-than-average winter snows, combined with an early freeze last fall that locked a lot of moisture into the soil. The threat has been made worse by spring rains.

“I think the river is mad that she lost the last time,” said engineer Mike Buerkley, managing a smile through his dark stubble as he tossed sandbags onto his pickup truck after working 29 straight hours.

Some 1,700 National Guard troops helped reinforce the dikes and conduct patrols for leaks. Police restricted traffic to allow trucks laden with sandbags, backhoes and other heavy equipment to get through. Read more

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FARGO, N.D. (FargoFloods.com) March 26,2009  MeritCare Hospital is Closed due to the Fargo Flood on the Red River in North Dakota. The first time in histoy that Meritcare has been Evacuated.  Meritcare insists it Ready.says Dr.Pitts

After consulting with local and state emergency services, to ensure the safest possible evacuation of patients from the city, MeritCare is initiating the evacuations of hospital patients as of 8:30 p.m., Thursday, March 26.

MeritCare Hospital and MeritCare South University Hospital are starting the process of evacuating hospital patients out of the Fargo-Moorhead area tonight.

MeritCare is working with local and state emergency operations centers to coordinate the safest transfer of patients to available hospitals that will be able to continue their required care. Some of the hospitals include Abbot Northwestern, Minneapolis, North Country Hospital, Bemidji, Minn., Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, S.D., and St. Alexius, Bismarck, N.D.

MeritCare’s first priority is ensuring a safe and orderly transfer for patients and their families. MeritCare is communicating directly with patients and their families regarding their transfer and plan for continued care. Patients are being transferred by LifeFlight, ambulances and buses. Medical providers including physicians, nurses and EMT’s are accompanying patients, depending on the level of care necessary for each patient. Necessary medical equipment and supplies are also being transferred with each patient.

The number of patients being evacuated is 180 and includes patients with care needs ranging from minor to critical.

The Emergency Center at MeritCare’s downtown location will remain open. We will be stabilizing patients and transporting them to other hospitals.

On Friday, MeritCare Southpointe and West Fargo Clinics will remain open for primary care walk-in care only; all other primary care locations in Fargo-Moorhead will be closed. Walk-In Clinic, Children’s Walk-In Clinic and Fast Track locations will remain open. The Infusion Center will be operating out of the South University Day Unit for scheduled patients only and out-patient dialysis will be open.

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FARGO, N.D. (FargoPhantom.com)–From the front line on the flood of the Fargodome.  Everyone working together to meet the need for sandbags in our town.  March 25 2009

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100s of Flood pictures taken on the way in to sandbag.

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FARGO, N.D. (FargoPhantom.com)– – Shifting from confident to jittery, flood-fighters in and around Fargo, N.D., intensified their dike building Wednesday after a dire new forecast called for the Red River to swell to its highest level ever by Saturday.

Authorities used airboats, helicopters and large military trucks to rescue dozens of trapped residents in the North Dakota towns of Oxbow and Abercombie. And if the rising river weren’t enough to heighten anxiety, 8 inches of snow blew in with ice and wind to handicap sandbagging efforts and close highways not already swamped with floodwater.

“It’s uncharted territory,” Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said. “If nature has anything else to throw at us, it’d have to be a tornado.”

The mayor pleaded for more sandbag volunteers and urged exhausted crews to raise the dikes another foot — to 43 feet — before Saturday’s expected crest of 41 feet. That would eclipse the 1897 record level of 40.1 feet in Fargo and the 39.57 feet reached during the devastating 1997 flood.

Beginning today, Fargo officials will start distributing evacuation information.

Prepare for 42 feet on Saturday

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Peruvian lawyer Luciana Leon was voted the world’s most beautiful female politician followed by fellow countrywoman Mercedes Araoz

Home secretary Jacqui Smith and former transport secretary Ruth Kelly may have been among Blair’s Babes when the former prime minister took power in 1997.

But they fail to register in the internet survey for Spain’s popular 20 Minutos newspaper.

A journalist on the paper said: ‘I’m afraid Britain’s female politicians do not have a great reputation for their beauty.

‘But when you look at women politicians worldwide some of them really are very attractive.’

Hundreds of readers have emailed their opinions to the website – but not a single one has asked for a Brit to be added to the list.

U.S vice president elect Sarah Palin was voted 24th sexiest female politician while Former French presidential candidate Segolene Royal ranked 36th

First placed Ms Leon, a lawyer by profession, is Peru’s youngest member of parliament.

This morning she was top of the list with 24,094 votes.

One reader described her as ‘a beauty with the face of an angel,’ and another as ‘the eighth wonder of the world.’

In second place is fellow Peruvian Mercedes Araoz, 47, with 15,109 votes.

Former U.S vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, 44, is in 24th place with 3,173 votes.

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, 61, is the oldest on the list. She is in 34th place with 2485 votes.

Former French presidential candidate Segolene Royal, 55, is in 36th place with 2377 votes.

Former Blair babes Jaqui Smith and Ruth Kelly failed to even get a mention in the online poll

German Julia Bonk, 22, is the youngest woman on the list. She was elected to the state parliament of Saxony aged just 18.

Afghan Malalai Joya, 30, is in 54th place with 1053 votes.

She was once described as the ‘bravest woman in Afghanistan’ for denouncing what she called warlords and war criminals in her country’s parliament.

Spain has the most candidates with five women, while the USA and Mexico both have four.

U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the oldest woman on the list while Afghan Malalai Joya came in at 54th place

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1 am FargoDome runs out of coffee for volunteers..Left with water and fiber bars

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Overland Flooding Coming to fargo North Dakota says Walcott Resident.

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The night shift takes over at the FargoDome During 2009 Fargo Flood.

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Check out the Fargo Phantom tonight with live video direct from the fargodome. See whats it is like sandbagging in Fargo at 3 AM tonight. Interviews and video. Log on an put the fargophantom.com in your favorites. Check us out to watch the video feed from the dome.

All Eyes on fargo as historic flooding begins in this VIDEO.

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Watch More Video of Hard Working Woman and Men in Fargo Flood Battle.

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FARGO, N.D. (FargoFloods.com)

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS in Fargo Flood.
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Dike building in South Fargo begins at 12 pm today, volunteers need to meet at Assembly of God Church, 3401 25th St S Fargo.

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Sandbag University is filling bags at the following locations:

Fargo
Check-In Site: Fargodome Parking Lot
When: 24 hrs a day until further notice

Who: We are looking for volunteers for 3-4 hour shifts to fill sandbags.

Moorhead
Check-In Site: Nemzek Field House
When: 8am-8pm until further notice

Who: We are looking for volunteers for 3-4 hour shifts to fill sandbags.
Other: Moorhead volunteers need to bring I.D.

YOU STILL NEED TO CALL the Volunteer Information Line at 701-476-4000 before heading out to a location. This is essential to allowing our volunteer coordinators keep track of volunteer distribution. Please check to see if a parking area has been designated so we can keep our sites safe and open.

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FARGO, N.D. (FargoFloods.com) Volunteers at Oakport Township north of Moorhead, Minn. filling sandbags Monday, March 24, 2009, as residents prepared for record flooding from the Red River. Moorhead is across the river from Fargo, N.D. Town residents were evacuated by boat during the 1997 flood.

High school and college students were let out of class Monday to help with sandbagging as residents raced to hold off a threat of flooding from the rising Red River.

City officials in fargo planned to fill more than 1 million sandbags, but with more rain forecast they increased the quota to nearly 2 million sandbags — about 500,000 each day by the end of the week.

“We’re confident that we can get the bags delivered,” said Bruce Grubb, Fargo’s enterprise director. “Getting them made is a more daunting challenge.”

North Dakota State University canceled classes Monday and Fargo high schools also excused students to help.

River Dr  in Fargo

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Mayor of fargo Says lets sandbag in the FargoDome for flood.

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KFGO Radio News time reports says The need for help is desperate.

FARGO, N.D. (FargoFloods.com)–F-M area steps up efforts upon hearing news Fargo-Moorhead and surrounding areas were inundated with bad news Sunday with a new predicted Red River flood crest that now could reach 39 to 41 feet and arrive as early as Friday – a foot higher and day earlier than originally forecast.