All eight credit unions in flooded Minot, N.D., were operatingwith skeleton crews Thursday as employees left their jobs to helpdisplaced friends and families find shellter under evacuationorders impacting a quarter of the community's 40,000 residents.
|Only the $16 million G.E.M. FCU was facing a loss of itsbuilding as it relocated its operations to two other CUs on higherground, the $12 million Ascentia FCU and the $70 million PrairieFCU.
|The Credit Union Associatiion of the Dakotas has set up aspecial Emergency ScholarshipFund to help pay hotel and travelexpenses for displaced CU employees forced to find shelter inBismarck, the nearest large city and about 100 miles south ofMinot.
|“We understand the flooded conditions are expected to last twoweeks,” said Jeff Olson, vice president of advocacy andawareness. The swollen Souris River is already at eight to 10feet above the high water record of 1969, he said.
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