North High is surrounded by water. DMPS does not currently have access to the building as all residents and businesses are being kept out of the flood area. School district officials will take a boat to the school as soon as possible and we will report back the building's status.
Power was cut to North High yesterday afternoon. An emergency generator at the building was maintaining critical services, including telecommunications to 8-10 other school buildings on the north side of Des Moines. However, that generator has not been fueled for several hours and telecommunications services at those buildings will be down. Items were moved from the lowest levels of the school building and equipment was moved from a storage building at the athletic field earlier this week.
The school district's three dump trucks have been on the road all morning helping to deliver sand bags to the berm being built along 2nd Avenue.
Graphic of area from dmregister.com:
