Bismarck/Mandan flood 2011

[xc_rider08]

Well we are now about ready to flood. with the run off from the mountains not quite here, and the river rising.. its time to start sand bagging the realtives house.

the river right now is at 15 feet. flood stage is 16 feet. we have a dam north of us that is so full of water they are having to increase the flow of the output, which is flooding us to the south.. but the only way they can control the water level in the dam is bye letting out more water.. right now the water is comign in at roughly 120kcfs and only leaving at 75kcfs.. and the river has risen about 8 feet sense the start of it..

they are projecting right now, the river will get up to the 20-21 feet stage, and then stay like this all the way to july. we figure we have about 4-5 more days b4 the water gets to the point where it really jumps up.

we can watch the water rise from the time we started this morning sand bagging till the time we quite tonight.

here are some pics

first trip to get sand bags.. loaded and unloaded them.. in all today we did 11 truck loads and one flat bed car trailer full

 

[xc_rider08]

having issues with photobucket will upload pics tomorrow morning

 

[crater]

Best of luck to you, hope there's not to much damage.

 

[pipes]

holey crap . hope that you guys don't get any damage. Best of luck to all of you.

 

[Rob1334]

Get chit done buddy! Can't feel my fawkin arms and shoulders are shot.... headed back out to keep at er!!!!!!

 

[Summitric]

Good luck you guys..... Get'rdone, and i hope y'all pull through without too much flooding

 

[94fordguy]

Best of luck to you guys with all that water

 

[xc_rider08]

well back in from another 12 hour day of sand bagging. 9 more truck loads hauled into the place today. i have it roughly figured out that i have helped make/haul/ place over 10,000 sand bags int he last 3 days.

the river is still rising. and they dont know what its gonna get too. just takign it day bye day.

 

[xc_rider08]

some pics from yesterday

man made road built up cause water would be over the top of the other road

 

[xc_rider08]

my buddies parents place.. they filled this 3 foot tall water bladder to help protect their place

used to be able to drive a double decker boat under the bridge

another water bladder pic

not much more it can come up and the rocks are gone

 

[xc_rider08]

there was once 12 steps here b4 the water started rising

used to be no water infront of the trees

someone forgot about the craine. lol

no water shoudl be in this pic

 

[xc_rider08]

waitin in line for sand bags. average of wait was 1.5 hours to 3 hours.

now my aunt and uncles place.. there used to be a concrete berm.. its under water bye 1.5 feet. notice the tape on the light pole.. each mark is a foot..t he top of the globe is the 21 foot mark for the hight of the river... we sand bagged to be safe up to 22.5 feet

notice eletrical box

rest of these pics are from the first day of sand baggin at the realtives place

my truck. looked like this ever trip to get bags.. over 200 bags in the back and 40-50 lbs per bag

 

[xc_rider08]

uploading pics from today right now

 

[xc_rider08]

pics from today

notice the difference in level in less then 12 hours

another persons house near my aunt and uncles building up the dike

first load of the day.

my cousin

here is what the house looks after 20 truck loads of sand bags later and 48 hours of work

 

[Rob1334]

Fawk you guys did work on that base we did yesterday... we have two mountains of bags right now to toss tomorrow and hopefully double the number of bags we have... call me when you are off work might need some help... if i'm done by then imma go fill bags for others.... let me know

Just got done and eating supper.... good ol 12 hour day on top of my moms shop getting a drunk's car in it... fawk what a day.... tomorrow gonna need that lauracet to make it, my body is broken as fawk right now... but no quiting in this guy!!! fawk the river we wil win!!!!

 

[xc_rider08]

Fawk you guys did work on that base we did yesterday... we have two mountains of bags right now to toss tomorrow and hopefully double the number of bags we have... call me when you are off work might need some help... if i'm done by then imma go fill bags for others.... let me know

Just got done and eating supper.... good ol 12 hour day on top of my moms shop getting a drunk's car in it... fawk what a day.... tomorrow gonna need that lauracet to make it, my body is broken as fawk right now... but no quiting in this guy!!! fawk the river we wil win!!!!

haha yeah.. another 9 truck loads.. we really appriciated your help on wedensday. will return the favor tonight when i get off work.

damn man... if it isnt one thing its somethign else.. will do whatever i can to help you out

 

[sledhead_2002]

good luck boys!! try to keep the water down south, we dont need ANYMORE up here! Our rivers have crested so we are in fair shape, but now we have 1 lake, Lake Manitoba which wont crest till end of june!! how do you sand bag a lake? we are far from over with our flood.

 

[xc_rider08]

good luck boys!! try to keep the water down south, we dont need ANYMORE up here! Our rivers have crested so we are in fair shape, but now we have 1 lake, Lake Manitoba which wont crest till end of june!! how do you sand bag a lake? we are far from over with our flood.

thanks sledhead. same to you. good luck

i dont think our water gets to you guys. its part of the missouri and that comes from montana. we are having the same issue right now with our lake.. the lake is taking on more water then the damn can realse. pretty soon it will be over the spillway and then all he11 breaks loose

 

[xc_rider08]

5-27-11

in from a long day.. went to work at 5 am. got off at 3 pm.. started helpign rob1334 and his family sand bag their aunts.. easily made 2000 sand bags for her house.

after i finished that i went and helped my uncle... mind u this is about 11:00 at night.. and we get to a sand baggign site that has a spider machien that fills 12 sand bags in 10 seconds. this thing really works. we whipped out andother 3 truck boxes, 2 flat bed car hauler trailers, and a 46 foot goose neck trailer in 1.5 hours. now its 3am here and im whopped and ready for bed..

here are soem of the pics.. i got to get the others off my uncles camera.

the spider

loaded trailer

46 foot gooseneck trailer

a close up of the spider

the truck load to help out robs family

well thats it for today. will be hard at it tomorrow again

 

[xc_rider08]

5-28-11


in from another night of sand baggign with family and friends.. thanks rob for coming and helping us fill another truck and car trailer full. even after that we stayed and helped another couple fill their trailer and 5 other random ppls trucks b4 we called it a night.

today i spent most of the day helping my aunt and uncle box everything up in their house and get ready to move the stuff out. pretty tired.. but somehow keep on going. not sure where im getting all this energy from. lol

will have another report tomorrow hopefully with some of the pics that i took today.