{"id":168516,"date":"2019-03-29T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168516"},"modified":"2019-03-29T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:04:58","slug":"fargo-suspending-sandbagging-oprations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168516","title":{"rendered":"Fargo suspending sandbagging oprations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dateline\">Fargo, N.D. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleynewslive.com\/content\/news\/City-of-Fargo-suspending-sandbag-operations--507841371.html\">Valley News Live<\/a>)<\/span> Based off the latest flood forecasts, the city of Fargo is suspending sandbag operations at 7 p.m. Friday, March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the city say at 7 Friday evening, they expect to have 400,000 sandbags. That would be enough to fight a 39 foot crest. Originally, the city wanted to make 1 million sandbags to fight a potentially higher Red River crest.<\/p>\n<p>However, the city says it&#8217;s important that volunteers still show up until 7 Friday evening to finish a strong sandbag production effort.<\/p>\n<p>Groups or people still interested in helping the flood fight are now urged to contact Cass County or the city of Moorhead to help with their sandbagging efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Fargo says they may still need volunteers at later dates to deploy the sandbags to certain areas of town.<\/p>\n<p>A new National Weather Service flood forecast shows the Red River in Fargo hitting minor flood stage by Saturday night.On Friday, March 29 at 9:15 a.m., the Red River was at 16.5 feet in Fargo. By Saturday night, the river is expected to hit 18 feet, that&#8217;s minor flood stage.<\/p>\n<p>Elm Street North will be closing between 13th and 15th Avenues North due to rising flood waters. The closure will begin Saturday, March 30 at 8:30am. Detour will be via 3rd Street North.Elm Street will remain closed until the flood waters recede below the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>By Thursday, April 4, the Red is expected to hit 23 feet. The Weather Service says the river may continue to rise after hitting 23 feet.<\/p>\n<p>A bridge on North Broadway would then be impacted, shutting it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fargo, N.D. (Valley News Live) Based off the latest flood forecasts, the city of Fargo is suspending sandbag operations at 7 p.m. Friday, March 29. Officials with the city say at 7 Friday evening, they expect to have 400,000 sandbags. That would be enough to fight a 39 foot crest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168521,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168516\/revisions\/168521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}