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Businessman John Stern entertains customers by showing off a pair of giant Levis at Straus Clothing in Fargo, N.D., earlier this month. Also pictured is Joe Kourouma, 11, of Fridley, Minn. Stern, who co-owns Straus with his brother and owns a home on the Red River, is looking forward to visiting his grandchildren in Colorado this spring without worrying about his basement flooding.
Ann Arbor Miller for MPR/ Read Fargo-Moorhead residents welcome no-flood spring
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