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• Closed business, services make life difficult in Fargo-Moorhead
  Life has been anything but normal in the Red River Valley. In Fargo and Moorhead, businesses of all kinds have been closed for nearly a week. That makes it hard for customers, workers, and the bottom line.April 1, 2009
• Residents continue to monitor dikes, pumps along Red River
  The Red River continues to fall steadily. That means residents along the river can take a breath, but many have still been watching pumps and checking dikes now buried under snow.April 1, 2009
• As flood waters begin to recede, residents look to the future
  As the residents of Fargo-Moorhead shovel out from today's snow storm, the flood waters are receding, and some people are beginning to let themselves look to the future.March 31, 2009
• One family's fight against the flood
  The Red River continues to drop today in Fargo-Moorhead, even as a heavy snow and powerful wind ravages the communities. The past 10 days have been a huge emotional drain on families as they fight to hold back the river from claiming their towns.March 31, 2009
• Guard soldiers fight flood close to home
  Thousands of National Guard troops and airmen are working around the clock as part of the flood fighting effort in the Red River Valley. Among them are several hundred Minnesota soldiers.March 31, 2009
• For Fargo journalists, the flood story is personal
  For Fargo's local news media, the story of the Red River flood of 2009 is personal. Most people in this small-town city know someone who's lost their home to the waters.March 31, 2009
• Wind and snow worry Red River residents
  Strong winds blew heavy, wet snow around the Fargo-Moorhead area this morning, adding to the strain on residents' spirits and on the patchwork system of sandbag levees protecting them from the bloated Red River.March 31, 2009
• Slideshow: Flood waters and snowstorm
  Residents of the Red River valley are contending with an early spring blizzard in addition to the flooded river.March 31, 2009
• Small towns around rising Red fighting too
  The Red River has reached its first crest and is slowly subsiding in Fargo and Moorhead, but the river is still rising as it roars further north. People in places like Perley, Halstad and Shelly are still sandbagging and biting their fingernails. In their towns, the Red River isn't expected to crest for a few days.March 31, 2009
• Flood life limited to essentials-only activities
  This morning city officials in Fargo and Moorhead want people to keep travel at a minimum. They want to keep streets clear for flood fighting crews and emergency vehicles, especially during the snowstorm that'll make for dangerous driving conditions. These precautions have made for quiet cities on both sides of the Red River.March 31, 2009
• Plastic and potatoes help protect earthen dikes
  A spring storm has already started to deliver snow to the Fargo-Moorhead area, and high winds along with it may whip up waves that could erode the earthen dikes. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began covering vulnerable sections of the dikes with huge sheets of plastic to prevent that.March 30, 2009
• Fargo's mayor in the spotlight
  Fargo's mayor, Dennis Walaker, handles the flooding Red River the same way he deals with federal officials, swarms of reporters, and Fargo citizens -- with a stubborn determination softened by a gentle sense of humor.March 30, 2009
• Forecast: Second crest on Red in mid-April
  The Red River is dropping at Fargo, but forecasters say there's a good chance it'll be back in the danger range in mid-April. The National Weather Service said Monday that snowmelt and future storms make a second crest of more than 37 feet likely.March 30, 2009
• Flooding in Fargo-Moorhead eases, but winter storm moves in
  Fargo's tired residents stared down a winter storm Monday expected to carry up to 14 inches of snow and wind-whipped waves that could worsen the flooding, bringing more gloominess in a city where people are growing increasingly frustrated with the drawn-out flood fight.March 30, 2009
• Going door to door
  As the Red River drops, Fargo residents are working to inspect and maintain the city's fragile levee system, which must remain in place until the high waters recede.March 30, 2009

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