{"id":11954,"date":"2009-03-28T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thousands_flee_fargo_ahead_of_menacing_floodwaters\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:00:27","slug":"thousands_flee_fargo_ahead_of_menacing_floodwaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11954","title":{"rendered":"Thousands flee Fargo ahead of menacing floodwaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of shivering, tired residents got out while they could and others prayed that miles of sandbagged levees would hold Friday as the surging Red River threatened to unleash the biggest flood North Dakota&#8217;s largest city has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The agonizing decision to stay or go came as the final hours ticked down before an expected crest Saturday evening, when the ice-laden river could climb as high as 43 feet, nearly 3 feet higher than the record set 112 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s to the point now where I think we&#8217;ve done everything we can,&#8221; said resident Dave Davis, whose neighborhood was filled with backhoes and tractors building an earthen levee. &#8220;The only thing now is divine intervention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090327\/ap_on_re_us\/midwest_flooding\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of shivering, tired residents got out while they could and others prayed that miles of sandbagged levees would hold Friday as the surging Red River threatened to unleash the biggest flood North Dakota&#8217;s largest city has ever seen. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11954\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}