Reader Letters - Praise, criticism, and other insights - Hutchinson Leader, April 2, 2009.
From Tony Cain
Oxbow, N.D.
On behalf of all the residents of Oxbow, N.D., we would like to send a truly heartfelt thank you to the bus load of high school kids from Hutchinson that left home at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, to come to our aid during the recent flood fight.
Oxbow is a small community of about 125 homes, 15 miles south of Fargo. On Wednesday morning, all of us were up against some pretty long odds. At the same time, the Coast Guard showed up with three air boats to rescue the 10 families of the homes already lost. The national Guard showed up with heavy equipment and a busload of your kids showed up. It was 19 degrees with 15-mph winds and snowing. With the combination of people from Oxbow, college kids and your kids, they worked outside, without rest, filling, delivering and stacking 20,000 sandbags.
When the flood levels finally leveled off at 4 a.m. the next morning, we had lost only one more house. That entire day was pure madness, but at no time did one of your kids complain about anything and believe me there was plenty to complain about.
Today is Saturday morning and we are completely surrounded by a frozen lake of ice, mud and snow but we are relatively safe as the flood bears down on Fargo today. Many, many times yesterday comments were made on what would have happened if the help including your kids had not arrived exactly when it did. We did not get your names, your ages or how your little bus got from there to here, but we do remember the smiles, the effort, and most of all the character of those kids to decide on their own that they wanted to help people that they did not know and get on a bus at 5:30 in the morning and head north.
I can't say what the kids are like in a lot of other towns around, but I can say that you have some really good ones in Hutchinson with parents who have obviously brought them up the right way. If you know one of those kids please tell them how grateful we are.
Thanks again from all the residents of Oxbow, N.D.
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