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People turned out in large numbers in northern minnesota this week. more than 1,000 people there to protest the construction of a new multi-billion dollar oil pipeline. block that new pipeline and all the environmental hazards that it brings with it. new pipelines pump stations. thats currently under construction. they piled a bunch of stuff, including a boat at the entrance so nobody could get in or out. the demonstrators started locking themselves to the construction equipment bodily at that s...

After 2019 floods, Grand Forks hopes a federal grant will subsidize recommended sewer Vail Circle and Glen Circle are a pair of subdivisions near the intersection of Columbia Road and DeMers Avenue that flood even after relatively modest rainstorms. The city completed some of the sewer upgrades recommended by a 2002 study of drainage problems in that area, and a new study recommends about $7.7 million worth of further upgrades. 8:00 am, May 1, 2021 × In this file photo fr...

March 7, 2021 Levees with unacceptable ratings are far more common than acceptable. And 73 systems with unacceptable ratings are considered high or very high risk. The U.S. levee system — once considered the second largest piece of the countrys infrastructure "rivaled only by the highway system" — is now nearly a century old and failing inspections far more often than it passes them. Only one in 25 federal levees are rated Acceptable. Newsys data analysis of the National Levee Database�...

City officials from the City of Coleman are releasing details related to the historic Texas winter storm that is believed to have claimed the lives of two Coleman citizens.  The timeline of events was explained to the Coleman City Council during a special meeting Monday evening at Coleman City Hall.  The following press release was provided by the City of Coleman explaining the events of last week. The City of Coleman operates the electrical utility, purchasing power from Constellation. AEP T...

City of Coleman reports two winter-storm related deaths

>> first we have to recognize of what the significance of what this is, this is attack on world economy, they are trying to push us into global recession by spiking oil prices, the means to do that are the saudi oil fields, while saudi is involved here, this is not all about saudi, this is about the world economy and that is a huge big deal, the iranians will keep coming, maria, they will not stop here unless we stop them, we are on two parallel paths, we are escalating economically through sanc...

>> first we have to recognize of what the significance of what this is, this is attack on world economy, they are trying to push us into global recession by spiking oil prices, the means to do that are the saudi oil fields, while saudi is involved here, this is not all about saudi, this is about the world economy and that is a huge big deal, the iranians will keep coming, maria, they will not stop here unless we stop them, we are on two parallel paths, we are escalating economically through sanc...

Was an incredibly intense wind event with wind speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour. it was creating a six to eight foot storm surge and parts of the city have been under water. one of the things weve done, ive been extremely aggressive as mayor, to make sure we can absorb the kind of water we saw during irma. what is being described is the variability as they approach florida. irma made a variety of different changes in terms of its intensity, in terms of its speed, in terms of where it actual...

Louisiana. we have flood stations, pump stations out around the coastal area and around southern louisiana parishes, in order to help get the water out of these communities and get into the gulf of mexico as quickly as possible. >> we are looking at some water, you know, all over the streets. cars trying to make their way through it. of course, the thing we always say, turn around, dont drown. if you see that high water, that is not what you are supposed to do. but there will be high water vehic...

Going to it a lot of moisture and dump it on top of you for hours and days. are you ready for that? >> yes, sir. we have looked at the rainfall rates. anywhere between 10 to 15 inches. we have a diverse drainage system here. we have over -- we have about 7 a pu 5 pump stations and over 100 pumps within those san diegos. if the brain doesnt arain didnn at the same time in a 12 hour period, we can pump the water out but 20, 25 inch area, we may experience flooding on the roads and some houses may ...