Since they announced this afternoon at 5 that the river was expected to crest two feet higher, both cities put out an emergency call for more volunteers.
Latest word is that the central coordination point for Fargo, the "Fargodome" arena, is FULL. Thousands of people have showed up, in the middle of the night, to keep sandbagging in sub-freezing weather, amidst 8 inches of snow. Moorhead has had a similar response, proportionately; it's a smaller town.
I'm told that the volunteers are not just from Fargo and Moorhead, but from all the surrounding towns, from further in to both states, and from other states such as Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Montana. We've even had Canadians show up! One of my friends working with the volunteer program mentioned a 7 year old girl who came with her 75 year old grandfather to help out. We're getting people of all groupings you can imagine coming to pitch in and help us out. And the same is happening up in the other cities northward, Grand Forks and East Grand Forks.
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Date: 2009-03-27 05:48 am (UTC)Latest word is that the central coordination point for Fargo, the "Fargodome" arena, is FULL. Thousands of people have showed up, in the middle of the night, to keep sandbagging in sub-freezing weather, amidst 8 inches of snow. Moorhead has had a similar response, proportionately; it's a smaller town.
I'm told that the volunteers are not just from Fargo and Moorhead, but from all the surrounding towns, from further in to both states, and from other states such as Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Montana. We've even had Canadians show up! One of my friends working with the volunteer program mentioned a 7 year old girl who came with her 75 year old grandfather to help out. We're getting people of all groupings you can imagine coming to pitch in and help us out. And the same is happening up in the other cities northward, Grand Forks and East Grand Forks.
It's the biggest "YES WE CAN!" I've ever seen.