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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]
A farm house is surrounded by water from the overflowing Missouri River and Mississippi River in West Alton, Mo., Monday, July 12, 1993. ... 1993 photo, during the Great Flood of 1993. A decade ...
South of Kaskaskia Island the alluvial flood plain continues on as the Bois Brule Bottom. The Bois Brule Bottom is bounded on the north by an old channel of the Mississippi River which flows around Kaskaskia Island, and is bounded on the south by Cinque Hommes Creek (also known as St. Cosme creek), with the Mississippi River lying to the east ...
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 ...
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 park's monument to the Great Flood of 1993, when water reached the top of the pole and was at 438.2 feet.The confluence site is normally 400 feet above sea level. The Mississippi is on the left and Missouri on the right.
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 ...
The flood occurred on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries between April and October 1993. The flooded area totaled around 30,000 square miles (80,000 km 2 ) [ 16 ] and was the worst since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 as measured by duration, square miles inundated, persons displaced, crop and property damage and ...