The sound that everyone in Minot, N.D., had been dreading came just before 1 p.m. Wednesday when emergency sirens alerted residents that water was rushing over Souris River dikes and it was time for 11,000 people in evacuation zones to leave.
Flood stage in Minot, measured in feet above sea level, is 1,549. By 3 p.m. Wednesday, the river was at 1,555.44. The Army Corps of Engineers predicted that it will rise 6 to 8 feet higher than in a 1969 flood, when it crested at 1,555.4 feet, and surpass the record 1,558 feet set in 1881. The crest could be days away, on June 30.
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