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The Coming Floods

submitted by Max Sparber

Mar 23 2009 — 1:08pm

Bob Collins writes about the espected flooding in the Fargo-Moorehead region, and how social media has been used to organize volunteer flood fighters. A quote from the story: “I got an e-mail last Thursday with a call for volunteers. It just kind of hit me that we can really get the word out quickly… to a lot of people in real time using a social network like Facebook. We also have a Twitter account set up. People have this up and running at work, at home, going to their cellphones. E-mail seemed a lot slower, which is funny since it’s always been known as a fast method to communicate.”

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Latest comment — notbixby: again, the links say what I said: most of the flooding will be diverted from the city. That's why the towns OUTSIDE Winnipeg will be having issues....