1.   Engineers had hastily constructed a ring dike around United Hospital while it was being emptied.

2.   Engineers hastily constructed a ring dike around United Hospital and a nearby nursing home, and National Guard soldiers set up water purification equipment.

3.   Permanent ring dikes built around towns like Emerson, on the border with North Dakota, have kept the communities dry, albeit isolated.

4.   Ste. Agathe, unlike seven other Manitoba towns along the river, was not protected by a permanent ring dike.