I am hoping, beyond hope, that the tag for this post will not be used much. But it could. We have so much snow, that it’s hard to look at it and not think about the “f” word.
As I spent an hour shoveling out the drive way and sidewalk this morning, I noticed that the pile on the corner had gotten almost to the stop sign.
There is still a chance for a slow melt which will keep the river down. And if we don’t get a big early spring rain, that will help immensely. It is too early to really start worrying, I know. But every new snow storm just adds to my anxiety. Last year was so traumatizing, it’s hard not to think about the potential.
My car was plowed in a bit, and it’s hard to really see how high the snow is, but this photo gives another view of the street.
I would guess that there’s about three feet of snow in our yard, and the banks at the side of the road are at least four.
Moorhead has made improvements to its infrastructure. And we know what to expect this time around, so we can prepare more readily.
I’m really trying not to worry about all of this yet. There’s nothing I can do about it. And it may melt slowly away threatening no one.
We can only hope.
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I was looking at some statistics of record flood levels and what I found was kind of alarming: 5 of the top 10 worst floods in written record for this area have been in only the last 13 years. To get the other 5, we have to stretch back to the mid-late 1800s.
I’m not proposing or hinting at any reasons why because obviously the area has changed quite a bit in the last 100 years. It’s just an interesting point.