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As the River Runs – Bis-Man Flood 2011

Rainbow in Bismarck on Sunday (picture stolen off Juanita Lee's Facebook page)
Rainbow in Bismarck on Sunday (picture stolen off Juanita Lee's Facebook page, thanks Juanita)

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We will try to keep this page as up to date as possible with important information, phone numbers, locations and anything else pertaining to the flood that may be able to help you or a friend. 

We are pleading for helping hands & prayers – we have seen so many people step it up in many ways: sandbagging, moving, donating items including buildings & their homes, babysitting kids so others can sandbag, providing music to the sandbag central locations, massages, free transportation & more.   THANK YOU!

Bismarck Flood Hotline: 701.355.1659

Mandan Flood Hotline:  701.667.3307

Sandbag Central Locations:  Missouri Valley Fairgrounds, Sandbag Central South Northern Plains Commerce Center (24 hours), Sandbag Charlie (South 22nd Street) open 24 hours.  Mandan – 46th Street Near Raging Rivers

Free transportation for volunteers provided by the CAT & Taxi 9000 – go to JC Penny’s at the Kirkwood Mall & they will take you to the location needing the most help.

Temporary Shelter & Food– Horizon Middle school provided by the Red Cross

Engineering advice – 701.355.8400 for dike guidance

Garrison Dam Release Info —  (CFS means Cubic Feet/ Second.  One Cubic foot/second equals 646,360 gallons of water.)

  • Monday, May 30, increase to 85,000 cfs
  • Wednesday, June 1, increase to 105,000 cfs
  •  Thursday, June 9, increase to 120,000 cfs.
  • No later than June 15 depending upon progress in putting protections in place and actual precipitation levels — increase to 150,000 cfs.
  • The anticipated river level at 150,000 cfs is 20.6 feet with preparations recommended for 21.6 feet or an land elevation of approximately 1,641.2 msl.

Evacuations – Burleigh County Southport residents need to prepare for evacuation (not mandatory at this time) due to increased water level (10:30 am 5/30/11).  May 26 Briardale, Hogue Island & Fox Island were served voluntary evacuation notices.  Morton County is recommending evacuation of the following additional areas north of Mandan: Schlossers first to sixth additions, and Seidler addition. Residents were advised to evacuate from the following rural areas south of Mandan earlier this week: Tokach/Timberhaven, and Jetty Beach.

Ways to help other than sandbagging:

  • To help Salvation Army with making sandwiches call Tammy at 701.223.1889 
  • To help with the flood hotline call Suzanne 701.355.1868

Important Links:

Other things to know:

  • City landfill is open only to commercial and city vehicles.
  • Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce is matching people with empty space with those that need storage space.  Call Whitney at 701.833.7298 or visit www.bismarckmandan.com
  • You can watch the press conferences live on the web at www.freetv.org
  • ND Floods 2011 Facebook page
  • 2011 Flood Event Map
  •  If you evacuate, turn off energy at your main breaker. Turn off gas valves to appliances. 1-800-MDU-FAST
  • Call 811 before you do any digging
  • We will need 8 million sandbags this week (to put this into perspective Fargo used 500,000).  To see what 8 million sandbags looks like visit BisManOnline.com

Links to pictures and videos regarding the flood:

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God’s Child Day II

Today we spent a lot of the morning working on trying to get video & pictures up for everyone.  I (Nicole) spent a lot of the day trying to learn how to work on a spanish keyboard.  Trust me it is not easy – none of the keys are what they appear to be.  It was also my birthday.

We toured the Dreamer Center which was beautiful (Sister K & I are dreaming up our own in Bismarck already.)  We also went to the Scheel Center & will be going back on Thursday to broadcast live there along with some of the students who have been practicing to be on our station.

Here are some pictures from Day II.

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Kitchen Round Table

 

Host Home
Host Home

We arrived in Guatemala at 9:00 pm (which is 10:00 Bismarck time – we are only 1 hour behind).  Right off the bat we sat around the table & interviewed Sister Kathleen Atkinson with ITEMP & Charisse Fandrich with the God’s Child Project at the dinner table of our host family Victor & Dora. 

Sister Kathleen has been here for four months, and Charisse for one week.  Our interviews will be posted below soon.

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Heading to Guatemala

God's Child Project, ITEMPOn May 2nd, Stacy & I will be boarding the plane for Guatemala to broadcast live to the world the daily happenings of the God’s Child Project www.godschild.org & the Institute for Trafficked, Exploited & Missing Persons (ITEMP)  www.itemp.org.  We are also working with Marlo from www.awesome2products.comand his product VideoEye Nuclei to do live video streaming as well.

Some elementary schools in Bismarck are interested in learning about what we are doing so we will be visiting with them via the web while we are down there too.  There are a couple of people joining us for the trip.  My step-daughter, Kristin, a soon to be senior in nursing/pre-med at the University of Mary & Amanda Moser from COCO/Strom Center in Dickinson.  There will also be a group of nursing students from the University of Mary doing a mission trip at the same time we are there.

If you would like your business to join us “virtually” – you can do so for the minimum cost of $300.  With that you will recieve 25, 30-second ads the week before we go, and 25 more the week we are down there.  live mentions, facebook & twitter promotion, & a logo on our soon to be made website page.  The coolest thing about this sponsorship is that half of it is going directly to the God’s Child Project/ITEMP.  Contact Stacy or Nicole today to be part of this awesome experience.