The Grey Lady Speaks

[lsanderson]

Editorial
Fargo’s Flood

From a geologist’s perspective, Fargo, N.D., is in the wrong place at the wrong time: in the midst of a flood plain waiting to be reflooded. What is making the Red River overflow is the combination of heavy snow melt and ice jams — the convergence of spring and winter all at once on a river with a shallow channel across a terribly flat landscape. More