{"id":45,"date":"2009-03-31T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:45:52","slug":"red-river-flood-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/red-river-flood-1952.html","title":{"rendered":"Red River Flood, 1952."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/6\/66\/Mrs_Colin_Campbell_Resisting_Flood_Evacuation-106-1st-Ave-S-April_1952.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/pics\/Refusing-to-evacuate-for-red-river-flood-1952.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size:6;\">Click for full image<\/span><\/a><\/center><br \/>Mrs. Colin Campbell would not be ousted from her home:  she is standing on the roof of her back porch, after climbing out a second story window.  The water is about 4 feet away from covering her feet, but she was non-plussed; in the accompanying article, she defied police attempts to evacuate her, declaring it was a good time to catch up on her embroidery.  On April 16, 1952, the Red River crested at around 35 feet; a <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.er.usgs.gov\/usgspubs\/wsp\/wsp1260C\">USGS paper<\/a> declared it the highest crest since 1897.  Her address, 106 1st Avenue South, no longer exists; Urban Renewal wisely razed the neighborhood south of Main and east of 4th street, which was regularly subject to inundation even in light flood years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-8757665619731190742?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full imageMrs. Colin Campbell would not be ousted from her home: she is standing on the roof of her back porch, after climbing out a second story window. The water is about 4 feet away from covering her feet, but she was non-plussed; in the accompanying article, she defied police attempts to evacuate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[67,109,108,107,84,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}