Fargo, North Dakota – Salvation Army staff and volunteers from across Minnesota and North Dakota are feeding thousands of Fargo/Moorhead area volunteers as they prepare for flood waters that could devastate the entire community. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesalvationarmy/sets/72157615815241638/

Fargo city officials estimate as many as 10,000 volunteers are aiding in a sandbagging effort and to help build levees along the Red River. Close to 2.5 million sandbags will be used to block neighbourhoods from the river before it swells above its flood stage of 30 feet.
“When the sandbags show up to the neighbourhoods, they must be unloaded and placed immediately,” says Captain Adam Moore, administrator of The Salvation Army, Fargo. “This means there is no time for volunteers to take breaks or go to restaurants. Through The Salvation Army’s Emergency Disasters Services we can nourish these people as they perform the critical work needed to save this area from catastrophe.”