Posted by Brokenwrench on March 27, 2009 at 11:49:49 from (96.60.162.216):
I have a good friend in Moorhead. They live in the area south of I94 and west of hwy 75, the part that has now been evacuated. I talked to him last night and they had just shut down the lift stations and told everyone to evacuate by this morning, if a dike fails they re in between the primary and secondary levys. Some left others stayed to try and sandbag around their houses.
He called me at about 8pm when him and two neighbors decided to sandbag around their three homes, instead of going around each one seperately. I m about 120 miles away and was getting ready to head up there with my skid loader and a couple friends to help him. Honestly, it sounded like kind of a losing battle. I had just got everything fueled up and was going in to tell my wife and kids goodbye and my phone rang. My buddy said he just had a bunch of help show up out of nowhere, he actually sounded pretty excited. I decided to stay put, and told him we were ready to go at a moments notice if he needed help.
He called me at 9 this morning, said they finished sandbagging at about 5:30am and was now leaving to be with his wife and kids. They started out with him, two neighbors, a friend and his son.
The son goes to MSU, and apparantly texted a couple other friends to come help. Within what he said was minutes, there was 20-30 college kids there throwing sandbags. Alot of them had been either filling or throwing sandbags all day already. He never got many of their names and is still alittle overwhelmed by the fact that these kids came out of nowhere and did in a few hours what would have taken them at least a good day to do alone.
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