The Great Flood of 1993
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During the winter of 1992-1993, the regions of the Mississippi had experienced heavy snowfall. Then during the spring, there were many storms over the same locations. Locations affected were Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Damages:
Damages:
- Water overtopped or damaged 40 out of 229 federal levees and 1,043 out of 1,347 non-federal levees.
- Barge traffic on both mighty rivers halted for almost 2 months.
- Bridges were out or not accessible on the Mississippi River from Davenport, Iowa to St. Louis, Missouri.
- Ten commercial airports were flooded.
- All railroad traffic in the Midwest was halted
- the 1993 and 1994 harvest were lost
- Numerous sewage treatment plants were destroyed.