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 April 13, 1997Harwood Flood Coordinator Ron Mack stands on the ring dike that surrounds and protects Harwood from the encroaching waters. Forum photo by Andy Blenkush |
 April 13, 1997 Vic Hurt tells North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer and first lady Nancy Schafer his dike is holding up on Forest River Road south of Fargo. Hurt says the dike was constructed to accommodate the original forecast, and when that was erroneously revised upward it was necessary to cut an opening through his deck and build on to the dike through it. Forum photo by Colburn Hvidston III |
 April 12, 1997 Daniel Parrow throws bags to other volunteers as his father, Harold Parrow runs the loader Friday. The pair joined about a dozen others to help save neighbor Ralph Lindstrom's home from floodwaters in Oakport Township north of Moorhead. Bruce Crummy/The Forum |
 April 12, 1997Vice President Al Gore, right, talks with Fargo Mayor Bruce Furness, left, and Cass County Emergency Services Manager Glenn Ellingsberg on the Second Street dike in downtown Fargo Friday. Forum photo by Nick Carlson |
| April 12, 1997 Firefighters work on top of a submerged vehicle in the ice-covered waters of a ditch west of Mapleton, N.D., on Interstate 94 Friday in a futile attempt to rescue the occupant trapped in the car. The driver,a 77-year-old Casselton man whose identity was unavailable, was pronounced dead at the scene. Forum photo by Colburn Hvidston III. |
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 April 11, 1997Sheets of broken ice are littered across Ada as residents returned slowly Thursday to start the long cleanup process. Nick Carlson/The Forum |
 April 11, 1997Workers scale the top of a sandbag dike protecting the home of Sylvia Hove, 31 N.E. Woodland Drive, Fargo, from the rising Red River Thursday. Dave Wallis/The Forum |
 April 10, 1997A sandbag operation ring dikes a riverside residence south of Fargo Wednesday. Colburn Hvidsten III/The Forum |
 April 10, 1997In a housing addition to the south of Fargo where the Wild Rice River converges with the Red River of the North, homeowners have ring diked their homes Colburn Hvidsten III/The Forum |
 April 10, 1997Rising Red River floodwaters surround a car Wednesday on the 500 block of Wall Street north of Moorhead, MN. Bruce Crummy/The Forum |
 April 10, 1997Several employees of Gateway Chevrolet in Fargo help sandbag at the Alma Cater home in the River Oaks area of south Moorhead where rising flood waters from the Red River threaten her home Bruce Crummy/The Forum |
 April 10, 1997Emily Roers guides one of her quarterhorses out of her residence along Wall Street north of Moorhead Wednesday. Red River floodwaters are over the street. Bruce Crummy/The Forum |
 April 10, 1997Sandbaggers relax while awaiting additional bags Wednesday while helping at the Tim Doyle home directly west of the Oak Grove Lutheran High School campus in Fargo. Bruce Crummy/ The Forum |