Bismarck/Mandan flood 2011

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Wow Kyle!!! I am heading down Saturday for another load of trailers and head right through Minot. My thoughts and prayers go out to you guys!!! It was a lake in Minot three weeks ago, I can only imagine how much worse it has gotten. Take care man!

Pick different route..

most roads are closed in minot right now.

here is a map of all the road closures.

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Impressive to see how well the dykes are holding Kyle. Sure hope this water recedes soon though.
 

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just found this pic.

the house that i posted earlier thats floating away.. here it is again
 

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Thanks for the link to the video, made it so it shows the video here. Wow, there is alot of damage there. Hope the river goes down soon.

thanks ron for fixing it... i didnt even notice that the video wasnt posted. :beer:

i think they said the crest happened yesterday and now it will be just time b4 it goes down.
 

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Once again, not Bismarck but Minot deserves the attention of this one...

Went up there this last weekend and you can't even describe the level of destruction, you really can't. They were moving out dikes that were 25-30ft tall and double that at the base, the dirt they used was AMZING. The river there is littered with swingsets, kids toys, decks off of houses, sheds, clothes, and everythign else you can think of. Grass nowhere and tall weeds and dirt cover everything. Thsi will take YEARS to rebuild.

Thinking this would be one of the worse off houses when we first started driving... wrong.
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Firends house...
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inside..
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Water line in their garage...
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Friends house after they got done tearing it out, had all new flooring he put in over the winter, they just had the home paid off, it will be bought out by the city to build the city dike bigger, he is walking away.....
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Our friends basement... still has water/mud in it, the smell was undescribeable...
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Some more pics I snapped... I could not keep up with a camera, just to much to see and you can't capture most of it...
Lots of houses looked like this... everything gutted to 2x4's and trying to dry out..
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Streets were just lined with garbage.. most of it rotting or molding...
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Very nice home vclose to my uncles..
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Uncles home.. no inside pics as I felt timing was not good. This is very real for them and the last they needed was a photographer to take pics. His home has all the sheetrock gutted 4ft up, down to the subfloors, all cabinets/bathrooms/etc gutted. Theyw ill be in a FEMA trailer this winter. (FEMA trailers were being put up all over town, LONG waiting list to get one)
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Sink hole...
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Odd driving around at night, no street lights work and traffic lights are still nothing. Really dark and kinda creepy to drive around on. No lights from the homes or businesses. This will take YEARS to rebuild... it will never be the same.
 

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Wow. Thanks for the pictures. I can't even begin to imagine the destruction. That really sucks.

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Just curious Kyle, how's things looking on the home front this spring?
 
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