Fargo warned: 'Peoples' lives are at stake'
Fargo, North Dakota officials spent much of Wednesday working on a revised plan after the National Weather Service issued a foreboding forecast for the Red River: a 41-foot crest predicted to hit Saturday. "Nobody that's alive today has ever seen it at 41 feet," said Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker. "They need to take this extremely seriously." Sheriff Paul D. Laney told residents to stay away from the area, warning that "peoples' lives are at stake." full story

' But the Red River posed the gravest threat as it rose toward historic levels, officials said.

"Nobody that's alive today has ever seen it at 41 feet," said Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker. "They need to take this extremely seriously."

Walaker said it's only "smart" for city officials and residents to think about worst-case scenarios, which could include a citywide evacuation.

"If they have people that are infirm or have difficulty getting around, they [residents] should consider taking them out of the city" before any evacuation is ordered, he said.

"If you have kids that are small and so forth, evacuation would scare the tar out of them."'

It's gonna scare your kids no matter what. Unless they are simultaneously celebrating this thread. In which case they will have a conflict of interest.