Remember when we were just Neighborhood Explorers? Yesterday we drove around the city looking at different rivers and diversions. While most people around here have lived through a flood every year of their lives - we, on the other hand, are excited for this is our first TRUE flooding experience.
This is the field that was under water at the turn off to our neighborhood. No more water.
This is "The Nile" as the boys call the water collected in the road ditch next to the interstate.
It looks deep and it takes up most of the road ditch.
This is the only picture of the Red River I took. Usually the trees are NOT under water. I believe it should be at its peak within a day or two. They are saying it won't be as high as previously expected. I think 37 feet is the new projected high. That's still high enough. We did drive over the river in a few other places. They are all flooded and quite impressive. There are dikes up all along the river. These people are pros. You can tell they know what they are doing.
This is our sweet "little" Sheyenne River. This is a stone's throw from our house. You can see where it is spilling out into the diversion. What a blessing the diversion is!
This is also the Sheyenne River just down the road from us.
Same story, different area of the river.
This is a "to the west" picture of the same spot in the river as the picture above.
This is the diversion right behind our house. This was in the first picture of the Sheyenne River.
The tree line is our neighborhood.
This is the "stream" in our ditch.
We had a 70 degree day so our snow bank is ALMOST gone! Yippee!!!
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