Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait in the morning cold was a worthwhile proposition. Lured by the prospect of a quick $150 for a week's work following exams, many showed up late Monday night armed with sleeping bags and blankets. By the time the Student Employment Office opened its doors to receive the flood of applicants, Radcliffe Yard looked like a public campground...
City officials, who keep a close watch on the Souris, have followed a carefully rehearsed plan in preparing for the floods. A well-staffed flood control center, resembling a military command post, was set up to begin coordinating an evacuation system and dike patrol. National Guardsmen and personnel from the local Air Force base were pressed into service to help. A Shrine Circus, scheduled to play the municipal auditorium last week, was canceled and the hall used for storage...
...evacuation with equanimity. A few families joked about their annual "spring cleaning" as they watched moving vans load up their possessions for the trip to higher ground. Said Mrs. Doris Christensen: "We've got the cleanest houses in North Dakota." Others, especially those who own property in the flood plain, are less excited about the emergency. "If you sell your house in the valley, you're not going to make enough to buy one on the hill," said Mrs. Verna Hammer, who has taken up residence in a local school...
...thing does upset the townspeople: the lack of adequate flood control in the area. The Corps of Engineers has attempted to help by deepening the Souris' channel, but this spring's unusually high water levels could not be contained. Construction of a dam that could help hold back flood waters has been delayed by government red tape and is opposed by environmentalists and by farmers whose land might be flooded. Even if the project were to be approved, residents of Minot are likely to spend several more years warily watching the water. The earliest the dam could...
...families and neighbors to policemen, wardens, penitentiaries, almshouses and asylums. The police could maintain order-the mob was no longer tolerated-but they could not prevent crime; they could enforce laws, but not unpopular ones; criminals might fear prison, but they were not reformed by it. With immigration approaching flood levels, the normal disputes over the nature of public order and the sources of criminality were intensified by ethnic cleavages and the distaste for "foreigners." Though evangelical revivals took place from time to time, the police no longer played a large role in enforcing a religious code...