Minot a wasteland after 'tsunami' hits
The zoo? Gone. The animals have been moved to other zoos across the U.S. Midwest and the Minot zoo won't reopen this year.
Four thousand homes? Gone. The Souris River, called its anglicized name -- Mouse River -- here, tried to wash this community away.
Those 4,000 homes didn't just get a little wet in the basement. Some 800 homes had more than three metres of water on the main floor. Joe Holzer's mother's home was one of them. Water rose past her ceiling and within half a metre of the roof's peak. All those homes must be demolished.
Another 2,400 homes had two to three metres of water inside them. It's not known what will happen to them.
About 800 homes suffered what they're calling moderate damage -- half a metre to two metres of water on the main floor -- and 132 homes were slightly flooded.
Then there's the trailer park, called Holiday Village, with its roughly 500 trailer homes. It's gone and won't be coming back. Speaking of Holiday monickers, the Holiday Inn was flooded and has been closed since late June.
Flood damage here is estimated at $1 billion. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has pledged $50 million to help.
Meanwhile, the state government's reticence on flood aid has been deafening. It's sitting on a budget surplus of more than $1 billion, thanks to royalties from the oil boom in northwestern North Dakota. However, it also has to contend with flooding in Bismarck and Mandan from the Missouri River.
Then there's the smell. In Minot's lower neighbourhoods flooded by the Souris River, there's not only the smell of muddy river water but the stench of raw sewage. The Souris took out sewage lagoons upstream of Minot and delivered them here.
But that's not all.
Minot has been pumping raw sewage into the Souris since June 1. The flood knocked out half the city's lift stations. That sewage is headed to Manitoba.
The water was 1.5 metres higher this year than the disastrous 1969 flood. But if the 1969 flood was disastrous, it's tough to put this one into words. "I call it 'the tsunami of the Plains,' " said Don Vitko, a tire salesman who generously provided the Free Press with a tour. "I'm still looking at it and shaking my head."
Sheds wound up on rooftops. Decks wound up in other blocks. Water smashed through garage doors and windows. The current was so strong it knocked homes off their foundations.
This community is still shell-shocked. Water left the worst-flooded area last Saturday. Huge mounds of ripped-out walls and furniture are piled on the curbs in front of those homes. The mounds virtually all look the same -- piles of drywall, pink or yellow insulation, beds, carpets, shelves, furniture. That's in neighbourhoods between the Burdick Expressway and the Souris River.
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The winner of the Healthy Kids School Challenge is Silverspring Elementary School. Ms. Melanie Sydiaha's Grade 5 students won the fifth and final checkpoint, and the school as a whole won the grand prize by having the most classes registered and the highest point totals collected throughout the school year.
The Healthy Kids School Challenge has encouraged more than 700 students from 83 schools across Saskatchewan to get active and make healthy food choices. The challenge began in November 2010 and ran over the course of the school year. Students involved in the challenge reported close to 309,000 healthy food choices and more than 55,000 hours of physical activity.
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