Parts availability for the next week or two slow at best

Post by **Lavoy** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:49 am

Just an FYI to everyone, sorry for the inconvenience and/or delay, but I will likely be unavailable to ship many parts for the next week or two. I have too many friends and relatives that are in danger of going under water without flood preparation, so I need to be there. I will ship what I can, when I can. I will check messages and posts at night if I get home and have time. I will ship what parts I can get ready when I am home, but I am guessing it will be slow. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Lavoy

Randynscottsboro · Post by **Randynscottsboro** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:36 pm

Good luck and keep your powder dry.
Randy

sbarr · Post by **sbarr** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:51 pm

Good luck and hope all's well ,we have all been there before

wwattson · Post by **wwattson** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:35 am

Lavoy,

How's it working out so far?

Bill

Post by **Lavoy** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:30 pm

We were in pretty good shape until maybe yesterday. 6-10" of new snow, freezing temps, and they jumped the flood crest to the top end of what they had predicted, or a little more. They say now, the Red will hit 41.2' give or take, exceeding the record from the 1800's. 41' is past what can be reasonably fought in many areas. So far they have topped of 7 miles of permanent dike in Fargo, and a few more miles of temporary. They have already listed their contingency plans on where to put in new dikes as the temporaries fail, and they have to abandon parts of the city.
Just a few miles SE of me, they started evacuating people by air boats this afternoon. Late afternoon, they had a news conference, and told the people left in that area if they only had a few inches of freeboard left, to leave now, they are out of luck, and they may not be able to rescue them later. I hauled sandbags for the city of Moorehead this afternoon into South Moorehead where they are trying to get the dike up to 43'. The people are just running out of gas, they have been going 24/7 for several days, and it is in the 30's and snowing steady again now. They are putting some small dikes on Interstate 94 on the MN side right now. Fargo has Hesco dikes all the way to the edges of Interstate 29. In a few more feet, they will have to dike across it as well. I know several people that have cleaned out their basements, and one that has moved his entire house out. The township is trying to ring dike his house, but cut his power line accidently, so he has no heat or lights any more.
There are getting to be so many streets and roads either diked, or under water that it is getting hard to get stuff to people.
It is a hell of a mess, and I am getting doubtful that we will get through without a bad blowout somewhere either in Fargo, or Moorehead.
Lavoy

Tigerhaze · Post by **Tigerhaze** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:25 am

I saw on the TV news the airboat evacuations and some of the dike construction you spoke about on the Red River. I also heard they had to blast several ice dams near Bismarck on the Missouri River and shut off flow from Garrison Dam to keep from having a catastrophic release.

It's terrible for you all to have to go through all of this, especially in colder weather. We have dealt with a lot of record flooding issues here in Missouri in recent years, so we can relate to some extent but generally it is not in the winter.

Post by **Lavoy** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:47 am

You'll be seeing more shortly. The issued a mandatory evacuation for a portion Moorehead south of !-94 last night. They just issued a mandatory evacuation for some of Moorehead north of I-94 a little bit ago. My brother in law's brother lives in that one, and the water is currently running down the street. Shortly after that order, Fargo issued a mandatory evacuation for one section of town close to the river. All of this is in addition to a township north of Moorehead that was told to evacuate by Midnight last night, and a community SE of me that is already under water.
Lavoy

Randynscottsboro · Post by **Randynscottsboro** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:30 am

Maybe time to round up the animals two by two. Good luck for you and family, I will put ya'll on the prayer list.
Randy

Post by **Lavoy** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:11 pm

UPS is now essentially shut down in this area for the foreseeable future. Conditions are worsening by the day. Somewhat stable today, but several mandatory evacuations issued, one almost half of the city of Moorehead. I think few people are leaving, although they sent all of the college students in Moorehead home, and closed the schools, and shut off the water. North Dakota State University is closed, and the students are filling sandbags in the Fargodome as they no longer want volunteers on the dikes due to the danger.
Lavoy

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:37 pm

Lavoy,

You folks are in our prayers that this record flood will subside quicker than predicted.

Chuck W.

Post by **Lavoy** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:18 pm

A lot of folk's up here need it.
Lavoy

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:59 am

I heard on the news that The Red River of the North dropped 1/10 inch overnight. Let's pray that this is a trend and the river has creasted.

Chuck W.

Post by **Lavoy** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:54 am

That is what many people were hoping, but not likely the case. They moved the crest back another day to Sunday, and upped the duration to 5-8 days, and still maintain a 42' crest, maybe up to 43'. At least it is giving the cities time to work on dikes, and evacuate hospitals and nursing homes as well as some residential areas.
We are supposed to warm up a little on Monday, and they say there is 3/4" or rain equivalent in the most recent snowfall, so that will have an adverse effect. Fargo has suspended sandbagging operations for the time being, they feel they are adequately protected as far as height, the worry is failures. They are still running steady on contingency dikes, and evacuation orders are still in place for many areas. They have 300,000 sandbags in heated storage for emergencies, and we hear now they are filling 2,000lb "bombs" like the dropped in the dike breaches in New Orleans. A blackhawk just flew over me a little while ago, most likely with cith officials checking the amount of water south of me. There is a rumor that the Corp was in my town last night on the south side looking at building a clay dike due to a rumor of 27 feet on the Sheyenne river. I find that very difficult to believe, but nothing in this flood is making any sense. In 97 there was 50 square miles of water south of me, now there is virtually none. This a true river flood, and is not following the rules at all.
Lavoy

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:37 pm

Lavoy,

Thanks for the updates. Let's trust all will heed the warnings and err on the side of caution.
I just learned that the Red River of the North runs south to north.

Chuck W.

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:42 pm

From AOL Saturday evening:

"Forecasters gave residents along the Red River a dose of good news Saturday, saying the swollen waterway had apparently crested."

This is what we want to hear!

Chuck W.

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