Grand Forks Flood and Recovery

A few Grand Forks flood facts:

• Flood crest: 54.4 feet. (Flood stage: 28 feet)
• Water flow: 140,000 cubic feet/second. (780 is normal)
• 46,000 people evacuated in Grand Forks (90% of population)
• 8600 homes with damage (75% of total) and 1616 apartments damaged (28% of total)
• Almost two billion dollars in damage (Grand Forks and East Grand Forks)
• 60,000 tons of debris removed.
• 13 days without running water, 23 days without drinkable water.
• No lives lost to the flood.

Grand Forks Five Years Later

The Story of the Grand Forks Flood as told by a local resident

After the Flood
Photos from the last week of April, 1997

Downtown Grand Forks

• Downtown After the Flood
  • After Hell and High Water
  • Windows on the Flood
  • Christmas in Grand Forks
• Rebuilding Downtown
  • Grand Forks Herald
  • The Corporate Center
  • The Lost Street Uncovered
  • Downtown Businesses
  • Grand Forks Mission

• Lincoln Drive Neighborhood
  • The Higganbothams of Lincoln Drive
• Reeves Drive
• Belmont/Phoenix School
• United Lutheran Church
  • My Flood Story, by retired United Day Nursery Director Suzie Thorson
  • United Day Nursery Childrens' Flood Drawings
• South Side Neighborhoods
  • The House Crusher
• Riverside Park Neighborhood
• The Congressional Subdivisions
• First Season Mobile Park

Grand Forks One Year Later - April 1998

• Grand Forks Flood Remembrance Day April 19, 1998
• Celebration of Thanks May 17, 1998

The Red River

• Temporary Flood Protection 1998
• Spring 1999 Flood Fight

East Grand Forks Flood and Recovery

University of North Dakota Photo Album

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