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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.
The book is about James Scott, who was convicted of damaging a levee on the Mississippi River at West Quincy, Missouri exacerbating the Great Flood of 1993. [1] Scott is described as a man with an alcohol problem who worked at Burger King. The book documents his mental illness and childhood school arson.
During the flood of 1993, the levee was sabotaged and water filled the floodplain, and a nearby barge was sucked into the break in the levee. It hit a local gas station and caused an explosion. [ 3 ] Oil caught fire and the fire snaked across the water before it extinguished itself.
Quincy police officers Sean Fitzgerald and Mike Brokmeier were commended by Chief Mark Kennedy for rescuing a man from a burning home Aug. 29. A man is alive today thanks to the bravery of 2 ...
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.
QUINCY − A driver was injured when an SUV went over a curb and hit a light pole in the heart of Quincy Square on Tuesday, police said. Police said the driver, a 62-year-old Quincy resident whose ...
Significant number of floods occurred throughout the 1800s and 1900s, but the Great Flood of 1993 devastated the Bois Brule Bottom. Most of the communities failed to recover. [14] [15] An illustrated map of the Bois Brule Bottoms Levee Breach, Flood of 1993
Lt. Col. Brian Douty sat at a desk in a nondescript office, window blinds blocking the searing Middle East sun. Seven thousand miles away, his dad, Bob Douty, stood in the kitchen of the Pipestone ...