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The Mississippi Flood of 1973 occurred between March and May 1973 on the lower Mississippi River. [5] The flood resulted in the largest volume of water to flow down the Mississippi since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Both the Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Morganza Spillway were employed. The Bonnet Carre was fully opened between April 7 ...
Normally, floods on the Lower Mississippi River occur in the winter and spring, and thus are unlikely to overlap with the Atlantic hurricane season.The development in early July 2019 of the storm that would become Hurricane Barry briefly prompted concerns that a storm surge propagating up the Mississippi River could increase already high river stages and overtop river levees as far upstream as ...
Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America's most storied river. Flooding has pushed ...
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.
In the Mississippi River Basin, Vinukollu hopes to apply this kind of shared risk pool to insure cities at risk for inland flooding. “The triggers are different, the perils are different, but ...
Water surrounds a stop sign in Davenport after water from the Mississippi River broke through temporary flood barriers, in 2019. The river is flooding again.
Most portions of the Mississippi River experienced significant, prolonged flooding during the winter, spring, and summer of 2019. The duration of flooding exceeded records set by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 at some locations along the Lower Mississippi River.
Davenport experienced flooding from a record flood level in 2019, when the river gauge at Rock Island Lock and Dam recorded a flood crest of 22.70 feet, according to the National Weather Service.