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Looking Back At '97 Floods

In 1997, a record winter snowfall brought the Red River of the North out of its banks in one of the costliest and largest flood evacuations in U.S. history before Hurricane Katrina. The river overpowered dikes protecting North Dakota's third-largest city and forced thousands to flee their homes in North Dakota, Minnesota and southern Canada. Eleven people died.

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N.D. National Guard Lt. Col. Chuck Rydell peers over a wooden dyke extension on the Red River as Capt. Mike Holly stands by on April 24, 1997 in Pembina, N.D.

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