How to Find Flood Information For North Dakota

If you're in Fargo or the surrounding area In-Fourm has a large tool bar on their homepage dedicated to the flood...and KFGO website contains upto date information as well.

http://www.inforum.com/

http://www.kfgo.com/

This site may have some info too. I use the flood maps for my work reports

http://www.fema.gov/index.shtm

PEOPLE IN BEULAH WERE LOOKING FOR THIS, THANKS

I have a link list I built for folks too.

North Dakota Water Levels.  It has links to hydro graphs, text, etc, etc.

I also was told by an individual at the EOC that they have a Facebook page with many helpful flood and emergency oriented links.  It is NDDES.  My goodness, why didn't I think of Facebook.  It is EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!

I thought maybe the Hub would have had elevation datasets online but I don't see them.  They are somewhat useful in that you just click on the map and it tells you the elevation but be VERY MINDFUL that this data is ball park with 10 and 30 meter datasets.  FEMA maps are kind of ball park too for the most part unless created with LIDAR or other surveyed based data.  The 100 year flood plains put a guy in a perspective but if you want the smack dad elevation of your home, etc it takes surveyed, LIDAR or other precision collected data.  Contacting local water boards, county engineering offices, etc would offer you starting points.

I guess how a guy can look at it is if you are in the flood plain according to FEMA you best contact the above entities and find out just to what elevation you are at and what you may need to protect yourself to in case of a severe flood.  May even require a survey as most times they are just going to say "all I know is you are in a 100 year flood plain" or something along that line.  Survey costs money but it might be well worth it especially when buying or how high you have to build up your sandbag.  Had some issues with developments before especially last year.  Folks coming in wanting that info but I had to say the same things to them.  Don't know, data just saying you are in a flood plain.  Good luck...

I imagine the state EOC, Corps, cities, etc are getting final statements ready to release to the public.  The melt is not far away.  Sorry I have a twisted weather mind but I do enjoy the talk radio, internet reports, etc.  Don't get me wrong, I wish no one ill well.  Just am an intrigued person.

Here's an additional link:

NDGIS Flood Resource and Updates

Why doesn't the Corp of Engineers, the Feds, State of North Dakota or the insurance companies help buy one or two of these units to break up the ice this time of year to prevent ice jams and get the water moving.  Why haul in dirt, build dikes and bag millions of sandbags every year.

http://videosift.com/video/Amphibex-Icebreaker-at-Work 

Paddledogger,

You can buy 10 of these things and you still have the same flood fight on your hands. 

I would beg to differ on that!!  The temprature does play a large into the amount of water or how much snow melts in a short period of time.  Typically early into the melt, the water is running over the ice and it does take a some time before portions of the ice let loose and travel downstream.  The bad thing is, the Red River twist so much and can easily cause ice jams.  We saw it that in Bismarck last year, the Missouri had an ice jam and it started to back up, so they brought in some demolition people to breakup the ice to maximize water flow.   Even the Little Missouri backed up and caused a lot of flooding.  

As a firefighter, you learn that moving water prevent freezup and can melt ice.  So this is why I say that by using these machines could get the ice moving north early to prevent the waters from backing up.  It is all in theory, but I do belive that this would help to a certain point.  The only way I see that it would not is if we go from upper 20's or lower 30's day time high temps to 50+ in a matter of days, which is not out of the question in North Dakota.   

Just my .02!

Are you talking exclusively the RRV or are you including every river that will flood this spring.

It may work in theory but isn't very realistic.

Western and Central ND Flood Briefing Page

Eastern ND Flood Briefing Page