## Shot 03/26/2009. ## people sandbagging in leiu of flooding City officials spent much of Wednesday working on a revised plan after the National Weather Service issued a foreboding forecast for the Red River — a 41-foot crest predicted to hit Saturday. The last flood even near that level was in 1997, when the river crested at 39.6 feet. The record for the Red River in Fargo, the state’s most populous city, was set in 1897 at 40.1 feet, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  The Red River was one of many rivers that were at flood level early Thursday in North Dakota. The threat from the Missouri River caused more than 1,000 people to be evacuated from an area near Bismarck on Tuesday. On Wednesday, authorities blasted ice jams from the river in effort to keep it from rising even higher. But the Red River posed the gravest threat as it rose toward historic levels, officials said. "Nobody that's alive today has ever seen it at 41 feet," said Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker. "They need