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After the Snowstorm

15 Inches of Snow Bury Us

It’s April- it’s spring… right? Well, the past three days wouldn’t make you think it was… we have been pummeled by a snowstorm that layed us down with around 15 inches of snow, and it hasn’t stopped yet! So, this is North Dakota, and it snows a lot- sure, but these unseasonable snow storms are part of the dramatic weather that is affecting this region, and all of us are wondering a few things:

When will it stop snowing?
How will this affect the floods?
Why the heck did I give up alcohol for lent?

The snow is heavy and wet snow- so flood management personnel are going back and forth on whether or not this will delay the next flood crests, or if it will make things horribly worse. What it depends on is the temperature, which isn’t suppossed to go above freezing until the weekend, and when it does melt- everything is going to rise. Right now we are hearing predicted crests of 22 feet on the Sheyenne here in Lisbon (the last crest was 20.1) sometime next week. Of course, when they predict 22 feet, that means it will either be 20 feet or 25 feet according to the stats from last week.

So we have been pretty much burried here. There has been no travel (nor the ability to travel) since Sunday. I-29: the interstate I take to Fargo is still closed because of a frozen snowey lake on the roadway, but really there is not much other news- we are all just getting a little bit of cabin fever and trying to dig our way out.