The snowy winter and wet autumn points to possible spring flooding in the Red River Valley this spring.

On Friday, the North Central River Forecast Center, which tracks flood potential in all or parts of nine states, forecast a 90 percent chance of major flooding for Fargo-Moorhead before May 1 and about a 45 percent chance for Grand Forks-East Grand Forks. The chance of a flood crest reaching the 1997 mark is about 7.5 percent in Fargo and 6 percent downstream in Grand Forks.That forecast is “not likely to change much for better unless we get really innocuous conditions,” said Steve Buan, a hydrologist for the forecast agency, which is part of the National Weather Service operation in Chanhassen. “We’ve gotten a really strong kick-start.”

The Twin Cities left erupted in reaction to this news.

“While the citizens of the Red River Valley can defend themselves from floods” said U of Minnesota victimization-studies professor Jacob Lawrence, “it’s important that the response be proportional. The locals should only respond by making the water wet”.

Others were less conciliatory. “Water was there before the people of Fargo were; they plopped their city into the middle of the Water homeland” said Meghan Jeffreys, spokesbeing of Victims Unanimous of Plymouth. “We express solidarity with the water”.

A pro-flood protest is planned for Wednesday at 8AM in front of the Federal Building in Minneapolis. Protesters are urged to wear water in solidarity.

This entry was posted by by Mitch Berg on Monday, January 12th, 2009 at 1:05 pm and is filed under Great Plains and Midwest, Progressive Tyranny. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.