Note: The photos
on this page and other pages on this site are courtesy of the Grand
Forks Herald
The Red River Flood of 1997:
Student Activity Links
Exploration Activity:
The
image to the left is not from a war... at least not a war fought by
human beings against human beings. It is rather from a war fought
against Nature; against snow, ice, flood and fire. Sometimes, the
war is lost.
The Red River of the North forms the border between the States of North
Dakota and Minnesota. During most of the year the placid, slow moving
river is rarely noticed except by the local anglers. But sometimes
during the spring of the year it's a different story; melting snows occasionally
fills the river to capacity. If it's been a particularly harsh winter
with large amounts of snow, the threat of a flood becomes real. But
no matter how severe the winter, no one - not even the scientists assigned
to study it - ever expected anything like this.
To begin the activities about the Red River of the North's flooding
of Grand Forks, North Dakota, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, and the entire
Red River Valley Basin, browse through each of the links below and answer
the questions in the Exploratory Activity.
1) General
Information on Flooding in the Red River Basin - From Fargo flood page
2) Red River Flood Facts
3) These 31 days
... a remembrance
4) The
Night Two Cities Fell Apart
5) Grand Forks Herald's Flood Pages:
Exploratory Activity
Links
for use with flood activity 1:
Links for use with flood activity
3:
graph showing water discharge
Red River Level
Info
Satellite views of the flood
Pictures of the flood
Satellite pictures used in activity three:
Links for use with flood activity
4:
