The Red River in Fargo, N.D., has reached record heights and is still rising. IRE has compiled a list of resources to help you cover this flood, localize the story for your area and assess whether your community is prepared for a similar disaster.
Flooding is nothing new to the Midwest. Last year Cedar Rapids, Iowa was left underwater as “the rain kept coming, upstream river gauges quit working just when they were needed most, and the predicted flooding was woefully wrong,” said reporter Zack Kucharski of The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kucharski spoke about the role databases played in their coverage of the flooding at the CAR Conference last week in Indianapolis. Kucharski’s tipsheet, number 3192, is now available at the IRE Resource Center.
For more resources, including databases, links to stories, tipsheets, publications and other sites, check out IRE’s In the News resource page for flooding.
