IN JUNE 2011,
a swollen Souris
River ripped through a breached levee
in Minot, North Dakota. Flash floods
submerged entire neighborhoods. Nearly
12,000 people evacuated, about a quarter
of the city's population. Hundreds of now
homeless people pitched tents and parked
RVs in a jury-rigged campground outside
the local Maysa Arena.
Families stashed furniture and
possessions in the seasonal Eck Rink.
They set up cots in the arena's banquet
room. The flooded Roosevelt Park Zoo
temporarily relocated some of their
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PHOTOS: MAYSA ARENA
North Dakota's Maysa Arena unveils a slick
new sheet after nearly a decade
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by EMILY ZAK
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Maysa Arena | | Minot, N.D.