Fargo , North Dakota ( CNN ) -- Officials in North Dakota and Minnesota are catching their breath Monday , if only briefly , after the Red River crested over the weekend . Despite the river peaking at 36.99 feet -- 19 feet above flood level -- Sunday morning , the region will have to contend with high water for a while . `` It 'll be about a week , so we 're just going to continue to monitor things and kind of wait as that water very , very slowly goes down , '' said Robyn Litke , spokeswoman for Fargo , North Dakota . `` We are just continuing to maintain our dikes and just continuing the dike patrols . It is expected that we will stay well above major the major flood stage of 30 feet for about the next week or maybe a little bit longer . '' Overall , the situation in Fargo looked good , Mayor Dennis Walaker said Sunday . `` We 're standing tall , '' Walaker said . `` We have to stand tall for a few more days . '' Are you there ? Share your photos , videos and stories . Craig Fugate , director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency , was expected to tour Fargo on Monday to survey the area 's response to the high waters . When the river recedes to 30 feet , Fargo can begin removing dikes , a city official said . The waters were expected to begin their retreat late Sunday at a rate two to three times slower than it rose . The Red River flooding began last week when warmer weather and rain melted snow south of Fargo and its sister city of Moorhead , Minnesota , causing the river to swell . Upstream , snow and ice have yet to melt , pushing water back toward the two cities . Last year , the Red River crested at nearly 41 feet -- a record and about 4 feet higher than this year 's level . Water surrounded some homes near the river in Fargo , where 700,000 sandbags guarded the city from creeping waters . At least 10 people have been rescued from floodwaters in the area since Friday , according to the U.S. Coast Guard . Moorhead also was on alert , and the city was advising residents to monitor sandbag dikes . Between Moorhead and Fargo , more than 1 million sandbags were stacked to defend against the river 's rise . Between Saturday night and Sunday morning , teams in Cass County , North Dakota -- which includes Fargo -- rushed to three locations to reinforce sandbag dikes , said Capt . Grant Larson of the North Dakota Air National Guard . He said that 1,000 sandbags were stacked around a home threatened by flooding Sunday morning . `` This house would have been lost , '' Larson added . In the southern Plains , authorities said they linked four deaths to an early spring snowstorm that blanketed the region . Stacy Moore , 26 , died Saturday when her car veered off a slush-covered road in Unionville , Missouri , said Michael Weiseman , radio operator for the Missouri Highway Patrol . Moore was ejected when her vehicle flipped , Weiseman said Sunday . Weather-related vehicle crashes killed one in Kansas and two in Oklahoma , authorities said . Oklahoma police investigated 244 crashes , one that resulted in the death of a 7-year-old in Logan County on Saturday , the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management reported . On Sunday , a 77-year-old woman was killed when her car struck a tree after she lost control on an icy road , the department said . Parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma received at least 1 foot of snow . CNN Radio 's Shelby Erdman and CNN 's Aaron Cooper , Justin Lear , Dina Majoli , Khadijah Rentas and Reynolds Wolf contributed to this report .
Red River peaks at 19 feet above flood level over weekend . FEMA chief Craig Fugate will tour Fargo , North Dakota , to see area 's response to flooding . City expected to stay above major flood level for at least week , spokeswoman says . Sister city Moorhead , Minnesota , also on high alert for flooding .