This is good news for Sioux fans that are making the trip down to the Xcel Energy Center. Wow! What a bargin to travel to Sait Paul via air this weekend. No thanks we will drive. Someone needs to get Jet Blue up here to Grand Forks, ND.
UND hockey fans hitting the road this week for the WCHA Final Five in St. Paul shouldn’t run into any delays on North Dakota interstates.
Troy Gilbertson, highway maintenance coordinator for the North Dakota Department of Transportation, said a stretch on Interstate 29 near Harwood N.D., has flooded in past years, but it shouldn’t be a problem anymore, though people might hit small stretches of overland flooding.
“That road has been raised up a foot or two,” Gilbertson said. “Our plan is to run motorists through any water southbound on I-29 unless it gets too deep. Then we’ll reroute them into single-lane traffic in the northbound lanes.”
The Red River Bridge on Interstate 94 that crosses into Minnesota should be high and dry, Gilbertson said. The Red is expected to crest in Fargo–Moorhead at 38 feet on Saturday.
“At 40.8 feet last year, the river wasn’t even close to that bridge,” Gilbertson said.
Motorists who still have doubts should know there are round-trip seats on four of five Delta Air Lines flights from Grand Forks to Minneapolis-St. Paul on Thursday through Saturday — for $784.40. [Grand Forks Herald]
I'm planning on coming back to Fargo on Friday night.... I hope I29 south from Fargo to Omaha is clear.
ReplyDeleteMy car rides low to the ground.