The result is a sort of "crosswind stop-and-start recovery." For example, the city's biggest hospital has started admitting patients again after suspending this last week because of the high flood alerts. The overall high flood threat level was lowered to "'alert'" from "'high alert,'" as water levels continued to slowly decline.
However, the new worry for city officials is that the heavy snow storm and its strong winds could make evacuations and emergency operations, such as monitoring the still-stressed levee system, more difficult and dangerous. The strong winds associated with the storm may worsen erosion of sand dikes and earthwork defenses.
The National Weather Service said that the worst blizard conditions were expected further west and south of Fargo, but the region could still get at least eight inches of snow, with winds up to 30 miles per hour.
Fargo is urging residents in rural areas to consider evacuating before the snow hits.
Recovering from this flood is going to be quite a challenge for Fargo and other surrounding areas. Here is the link to the New York Times article with more details.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/us/31grand.html?_r=1&ref=us
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