Thanks to a diversion canal completed near Horace , the major Sheyenne River cities fared well in the 1997 Red River Flood which devastated the cities of Grand Forks , North Dakota and East Grand Forks , Minnesota .
Thanks to a diversion canal completed near Horace , the major Sheyenne River cities fared well in the 1997 Red River Flood . 
 By contrast , this flood devastated the cities of Grand Forks , North Dakota and East Grand Forks , Minnesota .