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Oak Grove School Damaged by Flooding
FEMA provides assistance to public
infrastructure and public-nonprofits
April 1, 2009
Morgan Forness, Principal, Oak Grove School:
We are a school, a private Lutheran
school in Fargo. We're about 103
years old. And we are on a peninsula
along the Red River in Fargo. We have
been in the City of Fargo over 100
years, and we're a school of about
300 students and we've been hit by the
flood of 2009.
The water was about two feet high in
here, when all was said and done. We
will see some water marks on some of
the desks and such. But it was about
two feet high as it flowed through here.
The building that we are in is not
useable at the present time. Virtually
every classroom has water damage. The
entire basement has been obliterated
and we have no electricity, gas,
heat... those kinds of services are gone.
Roger Jones, FEMA Emergency Management
Program Specialist:
Oak Grove Lutheran School, is an
educational entity. They are a private
non-profit entity, so they do qualify as
an eligible applicant for FEMA public
assistance program. During their
response to the event, they did a lot of
emergency work in terms of shoring up
their dikes and their levees -- that
kind of thing. As we all know they did
a have a breach in one of those levees
so their campus flooded. They had a great
deal of water in several of
their buildings. So we will provide
them assistance to repair and
reconstruct those facilities.
Morgan Forness, Principal Oak Grove School:
We were down but we are back and we're
doing everything we can to recover and we
will rebuild and we'll be stronger than ever.
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