The snow may be dying down across the Midwest...but flood waters continue to creep up...Folks in North Dakota and Minnesota are busy battling the rising waters of the red river.Fox's Mindy Mizell is in Moorhead with the latest.Two towns...one river...the same threat.The red river slices through the Midwest...Fargo, North Dakota on one side, and Moorhead, Minnesota on the other.The rising waters worrying residents on both sides.Aaron Snyder says: "Fargo is much lower than Moorhead is...Moorhead is in much higher ground in this area here."People in Fargo are working together building a fortress of sandbags around homes.In Moorhead... An assembly line of volunteers is hoping to keep homes high and dry.In Oxbow....just south of Fargo...Rescuers used airboats to navigate streets filled with a mix of water and ice...looking for people trapped in their homes.One teen plucked from her flooded house says the rising floodwaters caught her by surprise.Kayla Weston says: "Oh, it was terrifying.The water wasn't that deep this morning.Then we woke up and looked out the window and there was the river. It was just right there."Volunteers up bright and early in Mahtomedi Minnesota to travel more than 200 to help in any way they can.More sandbagging was planned in part of grand forks, the city hardest hit by the 1997 red river flood.An elaborate dike system was built after the disaster.The river reached nearly forty-two feet in Grand Forks by Wednesday morning...Only time will tell if the efforts by thousands will stop the red river from overwhelming both sides of the banks.In Moorhead, Minnesota, Mindy Mizell, fox news.President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area...That means the federal government will pay *75* percent of state and local government costs for the flood fight