Flood Effort

During the recent flood I have been doing various things to help stop the flood. The area where my house is located was expected to flood pretty badly. Monday we started filling some sand bags around the area. On tuesday we started at 10 a.m. an ended around 6:00 p.m. During this period of time we had a bus of Detroit Lake High School students come down and help us sandbag. It was nice to have so much help because everything worked out more smoothly with more hands. On Friday I went over to my aunts house, who lives in South Moorhead, and helped them sandbag. Thier situation was a lot worse because the river is right behind thier house in parts. We got everything secured at thier house but right as we finished a dyke broke. That was quite scary to see because we didnt know what had happened right away an all we saw were people running away from this area. A fire fighter came over and told us all to be in our cars ready to evacuate, but in the end they fixed the breach so it was ok. I