Combat engineers and infantrymen from the Minnesota National Guard meet with Army Capt. Joseph Berube (third from left), 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry, Echo Company Commander, during an overnight mission on a perimeter dike around the town of Purley, Minn., March 29, 2009. Numerous companies from the battalion are tasked with various around-the-clock duties in Moorhead and adjacent flood affected areas in support of Flood Fight 09.
Soldiers from Task Force Norman County of the Minnesota National Guard assigned to dike patrol confer with Capt. Joseph Berube (far right), ARNG, 2-136 Battalion, Echo Company commander, about the water levels along the dike that surrounds the town of Purley, Minn., March 29, 2009. The Minnesota National Guard sends out around-the-clock roving and foot patrols in Moorhead and adjacent flood-affected areas along the Red River Valley to assist people in evacuation, to monitor dikes for leaks and to transport Soldiers and equipment as required in support of Flood Fight 09.
Residents and volunteers in the town of Hendrum, Minn., fill thousands of sandbags to stack on top of the town's existing dike system late into the night of March 29 in order to hold back the rising waters from the Red and Wild Rice Rivers. Residents and local authorities facilitated the sandbagging process while Minnesota National Guard soldiers patrolled the dike while taking water level measurements and observing for leaks in support of Flood Fight 09.
A soldier from Task Force Norman County of the Minnesota Army National Guard's Echo Company, 2-136 Combined Arms Battalion, takes his hourly water level readings from a wooden stake on the side of a dike that surrounds the town of Hendrum, Minn., around midnight on March 29, 2009. The Minnesota National Guard sends out around-the-clock roving and foot patrols in Moorhead and adjacent flood-affected areas along the Red River Valley to assist people in evacuation, to monitor dikes for leaks, and to transport soldiers and equipment as required in support of Flood Fight 09.
Residents and volunteers in the town of Hendrum, Minn. stack sandbags on the existing post-1997 flood dike that surrounds the town around midnight on March 29, 2009 in order to hold back the rising waters from the Red and Wild Rice Rivers. Residents and local authorities facilitated the sandbagging process while Minnesota National Guard soldiers patrolled the dike taking water level measurements and observing for leaks while in support of Flood Fight 09.
A four wheeler all-terrain vehicle pulling a trailer stacked with sandbags drives along the dike to awaiting residents and volunteer sandbaggers in the town of Hendrum, Minn. around midnight on March 29, 2009 in order to hold back the rising waters from the Red and Wild Rice Rivers. Residents and local authorities facilitated the sandbagging the town's dike system while Minnesota National Guard soldiers patrolled the dike taking water level measurements and observing for leaks while in support of Flood Fight 09.
