Three sandbag dikes, four sump pumps and two fire hoses fill Kathy and David Huntstad backyard in Moorhead. This afternoon, like many dikes around the Fargo-Moorhead area, the strain of holding back the Red River began to tell on the Huntstad's dike and it started to give way. Almost immediately neighbors and friends flocked in to help throw 10,000 sandbags onto a new dike. Minnesota Public Radio's Hope Deutscher spoke with Kathy as the work continued.
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