There was some damage in 1993 flooding, but the outside landscaping and concrete had been reconfigured to handle a bigger flood. Storm sewers were beefed up and tied into a drainage ditch. Unfortunately we were wrong. Meanwhile on campus At NDSU, President Richard Chapman was assessing damage to virtually every campus basement, and thinking about the Fargodome. We've got water coming back through our utility tunnel.
Communications are out.
NDSU provides steam to the dome, and so the dome's problems must be fixed before the university's can be addressed, officials said. Richard Bovard, interim director of the NDSU Library, said three staff members were working in the library after midnight when windows and part of the foundation on the south side of the building gave way. The workers came in on their own after midnight, and worked to move documents from low shelves to tables, all in vain. Microfilm and microfiche records were wet, as well as machines to read them. A specialist will be hired, possibly from the Minneapolis area, to freeze-dry and restore the items.