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Jennifer Sondag looks up at a wall of sandbags nearly twice her 5-foot-7-inch height and knows she's done a great work for her parents and their neighbors. She also knows she's nowhere near done.

"Hopefully, they'll hold the water and everything will be fine, but you just have to prepare for the worst," said Sondag, 25, an iReport contributor for CNN. "And after a while of doing that it really bogs down on your emotions, and it really gets tough physically and tough emotionally."

She's been helping build up a dike in her parents' Moorhead, Minnesota, neighborhood for days to protect it from the rising waters of the Red River. Moorhead is across the river from Fargo, North Dakota. The dike ranges from about chest high to about 10 feet tall, she said. Read full article »

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