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Great Flood of 1993 – The 1993 flood was the highest of any of the three but had the lowest rate of discharge at 541,000 cubic feet per second (15,300 m 3 /s). While the 1993 flood had devastating impacts elsewhere, Kansas City survived it relatively well because of levee improvements after the 1951 flood.
#22 Photograph From The 1993 Great Flood, When James Scott Intentionally Sabotaged A Levee, Triggering A Massive Mississippi River Flood To Delay His Wife's Return Home, Allowing Him To Keep Partying
Great Flood of 1993, with the Mississippi River out of its banks in Festus, Missouri. I came across the Great flood of 1993 article which included only a number of small, lower resolution pictures (except for the satellite image).
The Mississippi River at St. Louis crested just shy of 50 feet on Aug. 1, 1993, nearly 20 feet above the flood stage threshold. This was one of 92 water gauges to record an all-time record crest ...
During flooding on the Mississippi River in 1993, the Scotts, along with several other residents living in and around Quincy and Hannibal, spent much of mid-July reinforcing the West Quincy levee. [3] By July 16, the river had stopped rising and had dropped 1.5 feet (46 cm) below the levee.
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 ...
Here’s a glimpse of the Great Flood of 1993’s effects on St. Louis and when else in history the Mississippi River has reached record-setting crests.