Hillbilly Aunt

Hillbilly Aunt
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Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Birthday
November 18
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Chief Dog Food Giver Person
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Bio
I'm your Hillbilly Aunt. I was Born, raised, and I'm now residing in Arkansas. I have a MFA in Creative Writing, for what that's worth. I'm child-free, dog-mothering, liberal, over-read and over educated, sometimes snarky, sometimes sweet, sometimes pathetic. I use this space for all sorts of random things, but eventually it all comes back to Arkansas.

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MARCH 26, 2009 9:55AM

Disaster Pictures

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Not mine, but this great slideshow by ABC news shows the double disaster North Dakota is facing right now.  You can see it here.   

We're keeping tabs on this closely in our house because the husband (Your Norwegian Uncle) is from Hatton, ND.  He was born in Mandan, which is apparently flooded now.  His folks are safe from the water because they are too far away from the river.  Fargo isn't, though, and it's the closest "big city" to their farm.  Grand Forks, which was devistated by flood some years back, probably isn't out of the woods either because the Red River flows north.    Their farm is closer to Grand Forks.  

The photographs are worth taking a look, especially the photos showing the mixture of ice, snow, and flood waters surrounding the houses.    They go well beyond the voyeuristic aspect of disaster pictures.   

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Wow. Those pictures are scary. Flooding is one thing but when it's icy too? I wish I could help.
flooding terrifies me ...

thanks for posting shelle ... hadn't seen these pics ...
Awful. Never seen anything like this. It's on a par with Katrina.
That is bad. How terrible to be going through that.