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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.
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 ...
The resulting flood inundated 14,000 acres (57 km 2) on the Missouri side of the river. [5] In one incident, a barge was sucked into the levee and slammed into a gas station, causing a fire. [6] The flood washed out all of the bridges in the area—the only links across the river for 200 miles (320 km).
1993 Blizzard: 79–300 $6.6 billion Storm of the Century: East Coast of North and Central America 1993 Flood: 50 $15 billion Great Flood of 1993: Midwest: 1992 Hurricane: 6 $3.1 billion Hurricane Iniki: Hawaii 1992 Hurricane: 26 $25 billion Hurricane Andrew: Florida and Louisiana: 1991 Wildfire: 25 $1.5 billion Oakland Hills fire: San ...
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.
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 ...
April 19: The Waco Siege ends with a deadly fire April – October: The Great Flood of 1993. April–May – A virus strikes the Four Corners, killing at least 13 people. April–October – The Great Flood of 1993: The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.