Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 36 rubber boots 34 sandbag 33 sandbags 33 shovels 33 concrete barriers 30 bulldozers 30 crews 29 concrete slabs 28 barricade 28 garbage bags 28 excavators 27 sandbagging 26 tarps 26 snowplows 26 crane 26 shovel 25 cranes 25 backhoes 25 waders 25 mud 25 Sandbags 25 plastic sheeting 25 sandbagged 24 concertina wire 24 tarp 24 containment boom 24 tarpaulins 24 dump trucks 23 stranded motorists 23 embankments 23 human shields 22 flood waters 22 floodwaters 21 dikes 21 evacuating 21 floodwalls 21 silt 20 stilts 20 cinder block 20 flood ravaged 20 floodwater 20 flood prone 20 levee 20 Mayor Dennis Walaker 20 evacuate 20 dike 19 cots 19 pilings 18 winch 18 mandatory evacuation 18 hay bales 18 dykes 18 berms 17 berm 17 Flooding 17 localized flooding 17 Walaker 17 flooding 17 evacuations 17 evacuation 17 earthen 16 Levees 16 flood 15 levees 15 culverts 15 flood mitigation 15 floodwall 15 swollen river 15 flooded 15 swollen rivers 14 drainage ditches 14 voluntary evacuations 14 floods 14 flood plains 13 Ninth Ward 13 weir 12 basements 12 pontoons 12 floodway 12 backfill 11 Mississippi River 11 submerge 11 sump pumps 11 spillway 11 Flood waters 10 storm sewers 10 flooded basements 9 floodplain 8 flood plain 8 Wadena 8 Moorhead 8 overflow 8 Fargo Moorhead 7 Cass 7 Wapello 6 spillways 6 dam 4 Moorhead Minn. 3 Sheyenne River 1 Sheyenne 1 sump pump