LIVE WEB Red River Rising

Technology is a wonderful thing, bringing the far to the near as shown by one local newspaper's work to help us see just how severe the historic flooding in North Dakota really is.

Watch live video from Grand Forks Herald on Justin.tv

The Grand Forks Herald makes use of Justin.TV for their own streaming video and chat channel showing the rising Red River of the North. I've visited Fargo and it is a delightful town despite all the jokes, but anyone with the pleasure of ever being there knows just how vulnerable Fargo and it's Minnesota neighbors are to the raging currents.