Fargo North Dakota Flooding 2009

DEVELOPING STORY: North Dakota is bracing for record floods, and YouNews Citizen Journalists are already filing reports from the field.

North Dakota has been declared a federal disaster zone as the rising Red River continues to cause statewide flooding.

The river has been swollen by heavier-than-average snowfall and an early freeze that locked moisture into the soil.

Fargo residents are rushing to build dikes ahead of the river's predicted cresting on Friday.

Hundreds of people are racing to fill the estimated two million sandbags needed to shield the community from the rising water.

Residents fear the flooding may prove to be as disastrous as in 1997, when tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes.

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[GodsentHellraiser]

Spent three days, nonstop, without sleep volunteering in this flood. Was fun as hell :]

[doesitsimplyend]

Lol I live in fargo.. haha.. That flood was nuts but it was really fun

[halverdha1]

i just wana say fargo has NEVER gone under water we protect it every year so yeah find your factts before your dumbass mouth opens up

[alaskanthizzlam]

I guess thats what you get for living in a FLOOD PLAIN!!!!

[4forevergirl4]

@ 0:05 that's my brother's video! He filmed it in our backyard! :O

[halverdha1]

at the biggining of the video when he said fargo is going to go under water again, umm well we have never flooded totally not even close, grand forks north dakota did NOT fargo

[drewbobaloobob]

@GodsentHellraiser Haha, let's hope we don't have to worry about it! And ya, i feel like FL is slightly different than here!

[GodsentHellraiser]

@drewbobaloobob Good luck! I won't be there fightin' it this year if it does. I'm livin' in FL, now ;]

I miss the cold and snow.

[drewbobaloobob]

@GodsentHellraiser let's just hope we won't need to bag some more this year!

[tjcool412121]

@Taydrum I'm told that i'm living in it. But I still don't know myself.

[MichaelaChistine96]

that was horrible, i hated doing this