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Article: Fears rise with the river; Nervous residents of Grand Forks are hoping the weather cooperates to avoid a damaging flood this spring.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 4, 1999
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If Grand Forks gets no more rain, snow or ice than is forecast for the next few days, a damaging flood probably won't happen, experts agreed Saturday.
But that's a big if, given the waves of low, gray storms passing the community where psychic wounds from the Flood of 1997 have yet to heal. Residents are drawing little comfort from assurances prefaced with "if."
"It's like you've been without sleep for a week, and then realize you have to stay awake longer," said Rob Frasier as he grappled with fallen branches of box elders in his front yard in Grand Forks, two blocks from the swollen Red River. "No one has had time to forget."
The branches ...