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In 1997 the swollen north-flowing Red River created the most traumatic weather event in Minnesota in decades. With the help of historic news footage, Hydrologists Steve Buan and Mike Anderson ...
Paul Douglas and Mark Seeley on that other major 90’s MN weather occurrence.
What factors led up to the 1997 flood? Many different factors came together to make this flood particularly devastating. It started with a wetter-than-normal fall in the Red River basin.
1997 flood hurt ag producers in the Red River Valley GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Frank Matejcek grew up a stone's throw from the Red River of the North, so the Grand Forks, N.D., farmer and rancher is no ...
Near-record water levels on the river between North Dakota and Minnesota came just days after the 25th anniversary of a devastating flood.
Earlier this month we marked the 25th anniversary of the Red River Flood of 1997, an event that transformed two states and changed the way we think about protecting property, homes and farmland ...
The 1997 flood caused 28,000 people to evacuate and cost $500 million in damage. The river also flooded areas of Minnesota, North Dakota, and southern Manitoba.
GRAND FORKS, N.D.- Key dates in the 1997 flood disaster in Grand Forks-East Grand Forks, based on information from the cities: — April 4-5, 1997—The last of in a series of blizzards str… ...
Cities along the Red River were determined to endure during 1997 flood PEMBINA, N.D. -- Hetty Walker's home along the Red River in Pembina has survived a lot of floods. She doesn't know when it ...
As Manitobans build sandbag walls and watch riverbanks vanish under ever-swelling water levels, ghosts of the 1997 flood of the century have returned exactly 25 years later.
Flood stage is eighteen feet, and the Red River has now reached flood stage at Fargo for an astounding nineteen of the past twenty years.