Souris River, ND...yep, that's not normal.

From UPI, the Souris River in North Dakota is expected to shatter the 130 year old record by more than 8 feet.  US Army Corp of Engineers local engineering chief called it a "Noah flood".

8 feet over its highest ever record...if that happened to the Willamette River in Portland (record 1864 = 33'), I'd be out of luck, just within the flooded zone.  Bummer.

Half the bridges would be useless, because part of their access would be a few feet under water.  The Streetcar and Max wouldn't be able to run.  Heck, all of South Waterfront would be under several feet of water.

Sure, they could resurrect the sea wall steel plate walls they temporarily built in 1996's flood, but 8' above the record, would mean that the water would bypass the sea walls and come shooting up from the sewer.  Eww, right?

Don't think it could happen?  That's exactly what happened near the Old Spaghetti Factory in the South Waterfront area in the 1996 flood -- you could see the water pouring into the street from the sewers, with the Willamette River short of 29' flood level.

I have a lot of sympathy for those folks in Minot, ND.

Rough overlay of 41' elevation