I am currently with family in Burlington, ND, which is eight miles west of Minot (more photos at the WaPo link). For those that are not aware, Minot is currently being devastated by historic floods.
For some background:
here's my diary from Wednesday;
imonlylurking has been liveblogging the flood with tons of helpful links here, here, here, and here.
Local CBS affiliate KXMC's amazing facebook page is here (you don't have to be a member of facebook to view the page). There are some great viewer photos on here that KX has been incorporating into their coverage. Here is the streaming page for KX, where Minot's own Josh Duhamel (of Transformers fame) has been following while in Moscow (he called into KX here), while using his celebrity to get our message out to a larger audience. KX has continually been putting up cameras on tops of buildings to give viewers more and more shots of their city. If you have some time, and are interested, I highly recommend you following along here.
The crew at KX has been on-air 24/7 for the past week or so, and they have been nothing short of perfect in their coverage. I cannot adequately put into words how great they have been.
The Minot Red Cross chapter's website is here, for those so inclined to help out. Please and thank you for your donations in advance.
Update - 7:15 CDT: WOW! I just heard on KX that our little town of Burlington, all 1,100 of us -- with outside volunteers, of course -- filled over 650,000 ... 650 freakin thousand! ... sandbags in the past week or so. Just wow.
Photos -- taken with my phone, so apologies in advance if they're not the best quality --below...
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