Weary ND residents prepare for 2nd crest

[Ian David]

By DAVE KOLPACK
Associated Press Writer
April 08, 2009

FARGO, N.D. -- Marc Shannon says he trusts the two-week-old sandbag dike behind his south Fargo house, but that didn't stop him from asking a passing survey crew for some help as he prepared for a second crest of the swollen Red River.

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Engineers are confident that the sandbag dikes feverishly constructed in neighborhoods late last month can handle another round, with a little more work from weary residents. The dikes were built to 43 feet and remain there, and they protected Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. - a metro area of about 128,000 people - from widespread damage. But they want residents to check both themselves and their sandbags for signs of fatigue.

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The city is also again asking for volunteers to help make sandbags Wednesday morning at the Fargodome parking lot, in hopes of bumping up their stores from 200,000 to 500,000. Those will be used primarily to shore up dikes and fill leaks, officials said.

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[msongs]

1. well at least the drought is over nt