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The 1993 flood broke record river levels set during the 1973 Mississippi and the 1951 Missouri River floods. Civil Air Patrol crews from 21 states served more than 5,000 meals to flood victims and volunteers, and their pilots logged more than 1,500 hours in the air inspecting utility lines and pipelines. [5]
This was one of 92 water gauges to record an all-time record crest during the Great Flood of 1993. ... Thursday, July 29, 1993. Lupus has been over run by record setting Missouri River flood ...
James Robert Scott (born November 20, 1969) is an American who was convicted of causing a massive flood of the Mississippi River at West Quincy, Missouri as part of the Great Flood of 1993. Scott is currently serving a sentence of 20 years to life in a Missouri prison.
2011 Missouri River Flood; ... Great Flood of 1951; Great Flood of 1993 This page was last edited on 14 March 2024, at 20:36 (UTC). ...
The “Great Flood” of St. Louis in 1993 is considered “the most costly and devastating flood to ravage the U.S. in modern history,” according to the NWS. The flood occurred from May to ...
The Great Flood of 1951 discharged 573,000 cubic feet (16,226 m 3) per second, cresting on July 14, 1951. This flood devastated the lower Missouri River Valley, including Kansas City, along a reach of river where there was no levee system. The Kansas City Stockyards were destroyed and the city was forced to move the development of an airport ...
Consider West Alton, Missouri, on a bend of the Mississippi near its meeting with the Missouri River. It had 3,900 people in 1970, Mayor Willie Richter said. That number nosedived to about 570 ...
Over the course of a three-month period in the summer of 1993, a slow-moving and historic flooding disaster unfolded across the midwestern United States, leaving economic ramifications that would ...