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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 169010" data-attributes="member: 389">I was in El Forke Grande during the flood as well.&nbsp; Lived in married student housing (man am I glad that part of life is done for me!), and had an office in the basement of Leonard Hall.&nbsp; After bagging dikes for many days, a couple friends decided we had had enough and talked me into an impromptu trip to Little Missouri Bay state park after a few beers.&nbsp; In the morning, we woke up and went to a small café in Killdeer.&nbsp; My friends being non-Dakotans had a bit of an east coast accent and the waitress asked where they were from, they said &quot;Grand Forks&quot;.&nbsp; She was amazed that we had made it out that far, so fast.&nbsp; We were like, ehh...what?&nbsp; Turns out that was the morning they issued the evac order as the dikes got overtopped. It was the first we had heard, so we rushed back to Grand Forks and had to really talk nice to get into town so we could get more than the overnight's worth of clothes we had.&nbsp; I grabbed a 6-pack of beer and sat on the Columbia overpass drinking it while watching the Guard trucks trudging through water on Demers and helicopters dropping water buckets on downtown as it burned.&nbsp; I eventually packed up some stuff and went farming for a few weeks.&nbsp; Then came back to salvage what I could from my office.&nbsp; Thankfully, my apartment was high and dry.&nbsp; Only spent a couple days back in GF before having to head to the Black Hills for a geology field camp. Good times!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 169010, member: 389"] I was in El Forke Grande during the flood as well. Lived in married student housing (man am I glad that part of life is done for me!), and had an office in the basement of Leonard Hall. After bagging dikes for many days, a couple friends decided we had had enough and talked me into an impromptu trip to Little Missouri Bay state park after a few beers. In the morning, we woke up and went to a small café in Killdeer. My friends being non-Dakotans had a bit of an east coast accent and the waitress asked where they were from, they said "Grand Forks". She was amazed that we had made it out that far, so fast. We were like, ehh...what? Turns out that was the morning they issued the evac order as the dikes got overtopped. It was the first we had heard, so we rushed back to Grand Forks and had to really talk nice to get into town so we could get more than the overnight's worth of clothes we had. I grabbed a 6-pack of beer and sat on the Columbia overpass drinking it while watching the Guard trucks trudging through water on Demers and helicopters dropping water buckets on downtown as it burned. I eventually packed up some stuff and went farming for a few weeks. Then came back to salvage what I could from my office. Thankfully, my apartment was high and dry. Only spent a couple days back in GF before having to head to the Black Hills for a geology field camp. Good times! [/QUOTE]

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