DEVILS LAKE FLOODING "A Road Home" April 30th,2011

Our only Road Home now only passable on horseback. Our precious home, indoor horse arena and barns will never flood but they are an island thanks to careless management of the water allowed to flow into the Devils Lake Basin without allowing the use of the Tolna Coulee as a natural and viable wayfor the water to flow out. We have lost our only Road Home. We along with many others in the rural areas of the Devils Lake basin have been force to these kind of measures to commute back and forth. This is a 8 mile stretch of gravel roads by horse back so we can get to where we have a vehicle parked. These waters are not like a river flood, they do not go down. We are expected to leave our home and lives with nothing while residents in the downstream Sheyenne Valley who could help will not. They have proven they have no regard for the lives of people upstream that are paying the price in part because of them. How is it possible in America that good hard working people are being forced from their land and homes because of how the rising waters of Devils Lake have been handled and continue to be handled? An Act of God? Yes the moisture that falls from the heavens is an Act of God. How it has been handled once it has hit the ground is the Act of humans making bad decisions that have destroyed the lives of so many in the area. 200,000 acres under water and counting, 1 billion dollars spent and counting and yet many Rural Residents and farmers have been striped of everything they have. This does not feel like America in my neighborhood. Please Pray for Us.

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News & Politics

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• Devils Lake Flooding
• Tolna Coulee
• Save the Sheyenne

[Lovebird4470]

You need More PRESS and Videos like this on you tube - so every one in the US can see what is happening at Devils Lake. If it was a Huge City and a place with Million Dollar homes- being swallowed up by water - something would have been done immediately and your down stream residents would have No Say in fixing this problem. It's hard to fathom residents & Congress of N.D. watch Devils Lake Residents & farmers suffer (18Yrs.) & do nothing to fix the problem.My heart goes out to all of you.

[DakotaRoughRider]

Heart goes out to you - our beautiful family farm (7 miles southeast of Cando) is also flooding. Lost farmland - trying to save our home my paternal grandparents built in 1902. What is WRONG with the people downstream???

Keep fighting and God Bless!

[Sewrightdezigns]

This is just one of many stories about people who have lost their livelihood and homes but we've also lost whole towns.

[iDroppedTheMic]

It saddens me to know that some refuse to believe that people are forced to live like this. I'm dreading returning home to the Lake Region this summer - I hate to see this.