The latest news from Fargo/Moorhead is that the Red River of the North is headed for another crest in 2-3 weeks, and it could be higher than the one last weekend. There’s some controversy about this – Fargo’s mayor Dennis Walaker, who is an engineer with some background in the subject, says he believes it’ll actually be lower than last week’s peak – but time will tell.

In any case, the Red will remain high, and the dikes will to some extent remain under pressure, and a wet spell in the next few weeks could change all that for the worse.

So while Mayor Walaker has told the citizens of Fargo to rest up this weekend (and they deserve it), city engineers and workers are checking the dikes, and making plans to raise the ones they have, and reinforce and upgrade the secondary dikes they’ve built as insurance against failures in the primary dike system.

So here’s my question: anyone in the Twin Cities thinking about car-pooling up to help one of these weekends? If the next crest falls on a weekend, I’m thinking about trekking up to the F/M, and I thought I’d see if anyone else was interested.

Hopefully Mayor Walaker is right and it won’t be an issue, but…well, see the title.

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