Volunteers in Fargo have been busy this week - they've placed 700,000 sandbags along the river, which should protect them from a flood of up to 40 feet. The rivers in North Dakota have also been busy — they've been tweeting.
Using data from the National Weather Service, these Twitter accounts are set up to pull in current river levels from several locations along a few different rivers:
http://twitter.com/jamestownflood (James River in Jamestown, ND)
http://twitter.com/VCfloodstage (Sheyenne River in Valley City, ND)
http://twitter.com/egffloodstage (Red River in Grand Forks, ND)
http://twitter.com/fargofloodstage (Red River in Fargo, ND)
http://twitter.com/oslofloodstage (Red River in Oslo, MN)
Check out our full feature on the 2010 Mississippi River flooding.
Now if that lahar I have a crush on would get her act together and post some more pictures to Facebook.
And, of course, you can follow Science Buzz on Twitter, too, where we're tweeting the levels for the Mississippi River at downtown St. Paul.
This is cool!!!!!!!!!! Even though ive never been in a flood.
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