The flood of 1997 is much more than this. It is a tragedy that scars all residents of the Midwest, a region that exemplifies the battle scars of nature in its darkest times. Blowing snow tears across the plains eight times. A sheet of ice comes raining down from the sky.
Water roars through the countryside, and fires ravage a city.
Grand Forks, North Dakota has suffered like few cities ever have. On paper its disaster seems small, no loss of life, the cities population isn't that large. When viewed as a series of events though, the spring of 1997 is one that will never be forgotten. Four events, an ice storm, blizzards, a flood, and a fire, have all ravaged this region. Nature has seemingly selected this typical midwest community to struggle through numerous powers of the environment.