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Click here to watch the videos of the Fargo-Moorhead Flood.

The flooding Red River

Standing on the Main Ave bridge between Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN the water comes up to the bottom of the steel beams. The road and park are under about 20 feet of water as you can see by the light poles sticking out of the river. The next few days will tell whats in store for our area, hopefully the weather plays nice. Tomorrow the Red River is supposed to crest between 41-42 feet, which is more than a foot above the previous record set in the 1800’s.

Evacuated neighborhood in Moorhead

This neighborhood was asked to voluntarily evacuate from their homes in case the Red River broke through the dikes. As you can see it is very empty and quite. Creepy.

Justin Moen being an idiot

If you would like to help in the Fargo Flood effort please visit www.kfgo.com. Also, I can be found on Twitter at @therealjosh for more updates. It is quite a mess in town and things could end up very badly. I ask that you pray and help where you can.

On St. Patrick’s Day I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Steven J. Wagenheim – President, CEO, Director of Granite City Food and Brewery. For those outside of the Upper Midwest, Granite City is a restaurant, sports bar and brewery all rolled into one. Granite City has a great selection of food and they brew a lot of beer with the change of seasons and festivities. One of the things they offer is a special called the Mug Club. If you are a Mug Club member you receive discounts on food and drink, offers of free food and get to be among the first to try the newest brews produced and much more.

I have been a Mug Club member for a couple of years, and it has more than paid for itself. About a week before St Patty’s Day I got an email from Granite City saying the owner would be in town between 4-7pm to meet people and talk about ideas and whatnot. I ventured down and visited with Steven and the COO of Granite City, Darius Gilanfar, for a few minutes and talked about the restaurant and marketing. I mentioned the effect Twitter is having on the hospitality industry and how Granite City could use it to their advantage.

Steven offered up a challenge to me saying he would give a free beer to anyone who shows up within the next hour from Twitter. I tweeted the message out on my phone with the details on where to go and what people get and I sat back and waited. Right as Steven was about to leave and head out to the Sioux Falls, SD, Granite City, I got a tweet from Colt of @golfcartadz saying he was just down the street. Steven said I had 5 extra minutes .

Needless to say, Colt showed up and Steven was impressed. We both got a free beer and I got a Granite City VIP Card. I never knew Granite City had a VIP Card. You get a few little perks with the card including a 10% across the board discount as well as immediate seating. Nothing like jumping to the front of the waiting list on a really busy Friday night when the Eagles are in town. Here is a pic below of the card. If you ever want to buy me dinner, I will gladly bring my card along.

Twitter is growing very quickly, and the people who jump on the bandwagon now will reap the benefits much more than the people who join in a year. Get in early and dominate.

Fargo-Moorhead was completely shut down yesterday while we braved the weather. We had a late season blizzard that produced some good numbers like 10+ inches of snow, 30-40 mph winds and lots of cold. Needless to say we spend most of the day inside watching movies and working from home. Here are a couple of videos for you to see what we go through in the upper Midwest. Click here to watch the videos of Fargo-Moorhead: Always Warm!

Notice the billboard in the background saying 10 days till spring, ha.

Our lovely 9 foot snow drift at our front door.

I did a quick video for everyone talking about working online and the benefits to being able to connect people while adding value. I mention a couple people like Gary Vaynerchuk and Chris Johnson author of F#@% Therapy (you should check out his book if you can. I really enjoyed it) in case you want to check out their sites. I hope you enjoy.