I've been accused many times of being full of B.S. and today will probably not be an exception, but I've mentioned before that given our house elevation the only danger we have could possibly be a failure to the sewage system in town. So --- the above picture shows my solution.
The Missouri River did reach flood stage this morning, something over 16' but in the next two days will come up another 2'. Those 2' will be the problem, some houses just won't make it. Some property resides outside of the dikes that have hurriedly been constructed. Last evening I returned home from my camera class driving on I-94 and was amazed at the number of loaded dump trucks rolling on to their assigned dike building. Miles of dikes are being built and a projected four million sandbags have been filled. We North Dakotans always prove to be resourceful as illustrated by this true story:
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed a California archaelogist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: "California archaelogists, after finding 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundre years earlier than the New Yorkers."
One week later a local newspaper in ND reported the following: "After digging as deep as thirty feet in his pasture near Sheldon, Sven, a self-taught archaelogist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Sven has therefore concluded that 300 hundred years ago, North Dakota had already gone wireless."
North Dakotans are such a proud bunch!!!
