City proud of the recovery by floods 1997
It was the starkest image of the flood formally that this city: verkohlten the facade of a building downtown, going to disturb the water had maintained that firefighters in the bay.
Five years later, the site is a park, as a scar, is both a reminder of the injuries suffered by this city and neighboring East Grand Forks, Minn. - and a symbol of healing.
The largest flag mast is 54 meters, the height, on the Red River crested in April 1997. Its base is built with bricks of solid masonry excluding Security Building. Some flowers have been transplanted from some hundreds of houses, bought and razed to make way for the new dam, the fight against the disaster.
Stop tourist, sometimes even in the Scandinavian themes Velkommen-Shop, on the block next to Memorial Park, and ask for the flood. Your visits are the owners several times Rochelle Wetsch thinks, even if the plethora bear their affairs in the mud and saddle, with its thousands in the form of loans, it is always the payment.
“The pity party ended after about 10 days,” she said. “You just have to continue.”
The Red River winds from the north by a dish-dessert to most of the valley of the border between North Dakota and Minnesota. Leaks of its banks almost every year in spring, but plenty of water, usually only for parks and courtyards.
This was not the case in spring 1997, after record snowfall buried the region.
A snowstorm and ice storm met the first weekend in April, the power to strike thousands. And the river was beginning to rise.
Limit its cities associated struggles: Wahpeton and Breckenridge, Minn., in the river’s headwaters, and Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., downsteam.
None was officially as Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, where the river has risen over and rolled by dikes and neighborhoods. More than 50,000 people have fled.
Fire broke out 19 April 1997 in downtown Grand Forks, 4 feet of water beneath the road. Eleven buildings were destroyed, including the Grand Forks Herald newspaper offices. The document - won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their work during the disaster - not missed a day of publication.
Its title after the fire: “Come hell or high water.
The form a horseshoe, stainless steel “Wonderbar” Whitey’s was adopted after the flood, and provides almost exactly as it for almost 70 years.
The main changes: The East Grand Forks three-door business is closer to the river, has swept over them. And Greg Stennes and his co-owner and borrowed the displacement of $ 2 million in the bar, which was free of debt before the flood.
“Whitey, reschedules in his grave if he thought we put $ 2 million in this place,” said Stennes, based on a stand of the Art-deco bar.
Floods approached $ 2 billion in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks. The reconstruction sucked away from savings accounts and the inhabitants forced to borrow. The loss of fortunate to draw on the economy, but Stennes these operations is back where it was before the flood.
Weisser’s anchor a number of restaurants overlooking the river. They rely on the brink of East Grand Forks’ new centre, which has a Cabela’s Sporting Goods stored in Shopper tire of the whole region.
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