Red river floods in Minnesota Gallery (14 pictures):

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25 March: Brian Witthoeft works on a retaining wall to keep out the rising waters from reaching his home in Moorhead, Minnesota

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25 March 2009: Volunteers struggle in the snow to unload a boat full of sandbags at a home in Fargo, North Dakota 

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26 March: John Iverson wades through icy water after leaving his home in Oxbow, North Dakota. Water from the Red and Wild Rice Rivers had started to overtake the small community, about 15 miles south of Fargo 

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27 March: Steam rises off clay in what used to be Centennial Fields, as heavy equipment excavates material to build earthen dykes along the Red river, in Fargo

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28 March: Pete Babler inspects a levee for leaks in the Harwood Grove neighbourhood in Fargo

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28 March: A house near the Oak Port neighbourhood on the northside of Moorhead is protected by sandbags from flooding 

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28 March: Members of the Horace fire department, the North Dakota national guard and volunteers help to sandbag a retention pond to keep flood water from the water treatment facility near Horace, North Dakota

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28 March: National guard personnel walk in icy floodwaters as they try to evacuate residents in Fargo

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28 March: Verne Parks of the Minnesota national guard wades through the water to bring supplies to people in Oakport, Minnesota

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28 March: Moorhead is inundated by floodwaters as the river continues to rise

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28 March: Only a stop sign is still visible on a flooded road in Fargo

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28 March: Just inside a sandbag levee, Jonathan Robbins checks on a pump which is removing flood water seepage in Fargo

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28 March: Jared Bakko hauls a boat down a flooded road after taking supplies to his grandmother, just south of Moorhead

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28 March: Homes are surrounded by floating ice and floodwater in Fargo. The normal banks of the river are defined by the twisting tree line