If you haven't heard, Minot North Dakota has broken the flood records since records have been kept. My (Mat's) parents are fine, but the home they owned (previously) for about 30 years was lost. My brother and I are bothered by it. We found a picture posted by the ND National Guard from this past weekend (June 25). Our childhood home is the house in the front with the light gray roof (immediately above the number "10" in the word "10th St."). There are lots of memories in that house and on that street. Our bedroom was right under the front gable, immediately above the front porch roof.
To the right is the main river channel and beyond is Oak Park - a big grove of oak trees with lots of nature trails. The very tall spruce tree to the right of the home is an out-of-character tree for Nodak. It is about 150' tall, and we cannot believe that thing is still standing.
My frame of reference for dealing with this kind of disaster is Hurricane Katrina. I was deployed to Mississippi's coastal area in late August 2005. I was involved in assessing and getting infrastructure and facilities back on-line. This is on that level of devestation.
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