2011 Red River flood

2011 flood affecting Canada and the US February 2025 2011 Red River flood File:Flickr - DVIDSHUB - Red River Flood Response (Image 3 of 15).jpg Flood waters covering Interstate 29 near Fargo, North Dakota April 2011 – June 2011 North Dakota, Minnesota, Manitoba 4Flood blamed for deaths of 2 North Dakota hunters http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/flood/south/Flood-blamed-for-deaths-of-2-North-Dakota-hunters-119485784.html Winnipeg Free Press 8 April 201161-year-old man drowns in flood waters http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/119540049.html Winnipeg Free Press 9 April 2011 Unknown The 2011 Red River flood took place along the Red River of the North in Manitoba in Canada and North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States. Flooding began in April 2011 and lasted through June of that year. The flood was due in part to high moisture levels in the soil from rain and snowmelt in the previous year, which meant that further moisture accumulation resulted in river levels threatening the flood-prone region. Flood predictors in Winnipeg initially worried that a dual crest of both the Assiniboine River and the Red might crest in the city at the same time.Dual flood crests could hit Winnipeg https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/dual-flood-crests-could-hit-winnipeg-1.1067580 CBC News 8 April 2011 Beginning around April 8, 50 Manitoba homes were evacuated and two more were flooded after an ice jam in St. Andrews, Manitoba caused the river to flood over its banks.Fifty homes evacuated in RM of St. Andrews http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/flood/red_river/FIfty-homes-evacuated-in-RM-of-St-Andrews-119533569.html Winnipeg Free Press 9 April 2011 Through most of Southern Manitoba, the Red River crest level was below major floods of the past, including those of 1979 and 1950. When the river crested at the James Avenue pumping station in Winnipeg, north of the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, the measured open-water crest was 19.59 above datum.July 2024 This high crest at the pumping station was attributed largely to flooding of the Assiniboine River. By April 8, three fatalities in the United States were blamed on the Red River flood. Assiniboine flood The Assiniboine River at Brandon, Manitoba reached its highest-ever recorded level.Assiniboine at 2nd-highest recorded level http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/flood/assiniboine/Assiniboine-at-2nd-highest-recorded-level-121108594.html Winnipeg Free Press 2 May 2011 The 2011 Assiniboine River Flood was a 300-year flood, meaning a flood with its magnitude has (on average) a roughly 0.3% chance of occurring in a given year.July 2024 2011 flood levels on the Red River were below those of 2009.July 2024 Officials said that if the flood controls had not been constructed along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers near Winnipeg in the 1960s and later, the cresting water level would have amounted to the sixth-highest water levels ever recorded in the city. Higher levels were recorded in 1861, 2009, 1997, 1852, and 1826 (in descending order of highest level).The Red River reached an open water crest in Winnipeg at James Avenue yesterday at 19.59 feet http://mbfloods.ca/reports/view/1334 Manitoba Floods 6 May 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110820202613/http://mbfloods.ca/reports/view/1334 20 August 2011 An Overview of 2009 Spring Flooding in Manitoba https://www.gov.mb.ca/waterstewardship/reports/floods/spring_flood_2009_overview.pdf Province of Manitoba August 2009 2017-08-23 2012-10-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20121012154047/http://www.gov.mb.ca/waterstewardship/reports/floods/spring_flood_2009_overview.pdf dead Fatalities in US and Manitoba, Canada Three fatalities in the United States were blamed on the flood by April 8. One man died while sandbagging in Fargo-Moorhead. The other two American men drowned in the Maple River when their boat capsized while they were hunting beavers. A Canadian man died in Niverville, Manitoba on April 9; his vehicle skidded off a flooded road and submerged before he could escape. References External links "Flood webcams", Winnipeg Free Press 48.9 -97.2 region:CA_type:event title Flood, Red River Flood, Red River Category:Natural disasters in North Dakota Category:Natural disasters in Minnesota Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Red River Flood, 2011 Category:Red River floods