CaneTalk: North Dakota cellist plays Bach as Minot residents desperately fight against the floods

North Dakota cellist plays Bach as Minot residents desperately fight against the floods

Posted by JAC on 6/26/2011, 8:04 am

It was like a scene from the end of the Titanic. A mournful cellist played Bach by the waters of the Souris River in Minot, North Dakota, today as the town fought to brace itself from the worst floods in 130 years.

Today the city prepared for the worst as workers continued to bolster levees that stand between thousands of dry homes and the rising waters - which is expected to crest sometime after midnight tonight.

Workers sweated over sandbags as levees were built up to six feet above the level of the rising waters. Officials were worried that the levees might not withstand a crest predicted to last several days.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007885/Souris-River-swells-past-130-year-record-level-flooding-2-500-homes-North-Dakota--going-worse.html#ixzz1QNnpRQcF

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