I blame the groundhog

Today we battled a blizzard and flooding. Will this winter ever end? Our snow was almost completely gone. This afternoon I heard we got 6-7 inches in this storm. Mandan called off school, but Bismarck didn't. I debated keeping Rion home, but he wanted to go to school. The day got worse as it went on and by the time I had to pick Rion up, we had some pretty good drifts in our driveway. Prairie Rose and Solheim actually closed early today because of flooding issues. I'm still a little ticked that Bismarck had school today. From what I'm hearing, a lot of businesses closed for the day. It was nasty out. I didn't go to work today either. It wasn't worth the risk. On Sunday a field in Mandan had flooded and when I went to work Monday I could see all the huge ice chunks that the river had carried into the field. I actually wasn't sure if I would make it to work with all the news about the Heart River ice jams and flooding. Some of our staff worked most of the day yesterday sandbagging the buildings in the campground. By 4:00 water was starting to seep into the campground. It started to rain heavily then and I left work early. So it has been a couple of very interesting days here. I just heard the Red River may crest higher than it did in '97. That is amazing to me and I've been thinking a lot about that year lately. I'll never forget that. And Fox Island residents had to evacuate here. I hear about Fargo all over the national news, but it's bad here too. Hopefully tomorrow is a much better day and the rivers start to go back down.