Photo gallery: Midwest flooding
Lowell Bottrell paddles his canoe through icy floodwater up to a neighbor's home as the Red River continues to rise on Friday in Briarwood, N.D. Bottrell is one of the few left in his neighborhood.
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Jimie Miraldi, foreground, opens new bags for sand along with Kathleen Thompson, background left, and Jodi Backman, right, at the Fargodome as efforts to save Fargo, N.D., from the flooding Red River continue on Friday.
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Pallets of sandbags are visible on the Fargodome floor as hundreds of volunteers continue to fill sandbags on Friday in Fargo, N.D.
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An entire flooded neighborhood is shown in this aerial photo taken near Fargo, N.D. on Friday.
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An isolated home in Red River flood waters is shown in this aerial photo taken near Fargo, N.D., on Friday.
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Sara Litton describes how floodwaters have risen to threaten a neighborhood near Rose Creek Golf Course in Fargo, N.D., on Thursday.
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In this Saturday, April 19, 1997 file photo, a church north of Fargo, N.D., sits in the floodwaters of the Red River. Having avoided disaster during the flood of 1997, Fargo may be a victim of its own success.
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Volunteers made their way back to the road after volunteering to shore up the dike on Thursday near Fargo, N.D. The river had risen to 40.32 feet early Friday - more than 22 feet above flood stage and inches more than the previous high water mark of 40.1 feet set April 7, 1897.
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Jeremy Sergey, right, and Dan Farley, left, of the U.S. Coast Guard pilot their airboat to shore as with evacuees as the Red River continues to rise on Friday.
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A line of sandbaggers works under clear skies on Friday on the Red River side home of Lyle Thompson at Lockport, Manitoba on Friday. Manitoba is ready to withstand the flood waters that are threatening North Dakota.
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