North Dakota City Struggles with Flood Recovery

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MINOT, N.D. - North Dakota's vibrant oil industry and advice from communities that learned painful lessons from similar catastrophes should help pull Minot's economy from the muck of its worst-ever flood, officials predict.

"I don't want to minimize the impact of this flood, because it is huge," said Jerry Chavez, the president of the Minot Area Development Corp., which promotes job creation in the region. "But this economic train that Minot is on, it's going to take a lot more than a flood to derail us."

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North Dakota City Struggles with Flood Recovery

The Souris River, which snakes through the center of the northwestern North Dakota city, last month overran most of the city's protective levees and flooded more than 4,000 homes. More than 11,000 people were forced to evacuate, a quarter of the city.

And while flood victims may find navigating bureaucracy fo...

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