We left Lake Louise Friday and joined our friends, Marv and Donna, at their rv park in Okotos, AB. Really nice rv park. However, they have a stream running thru their park that was now a raging river and threatening to overflow it's banks. The water would have flowed in to Marv and Donna's site as well as the one next door that they had borrowed for our use. Donna had just had surgery on her foot and was immobile. Fortunately the river stayed and then went down. It stopped raining to further ensure safety at this time. Marv showed us around Calgary even tho there wasn't much to see at this time of year. We did have a great visit with Marv and Donna. Then Monday we started out again heading east to Ontario. The rain, the mud and the wet combined with the boring scenery of the Prairies prompted us to again change our plans and we headed south east on hwy 39 at Moose Jaw. We crossed the border at Portal into North Dakota. What an experience that was. We could not believe the water sitting in the fields both in southern Saskatchewan and in North Dakota. We expected to stay the nite in Minot, ND but when we called campgrounds, they were closed due to flooding. We called Walmart to find that they were not in the flood zone and were allowing rvs to stay there. We spent the night, safe and dry, along with about 40 other rigs. The National Guard, Core of Engineers, Contractors and many volunteers were filling over a million sand bags. Ten Thousand of the town's residents had to manditarily evacuate their homes. It will take months to clean up the mess in this and other North Dakota areas. The flooding going east along #2 highway is just amazing.
