Great Flood of 1993
DATE: May through September 1993
LOCATION: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
DEATHS: 47 Estimated
COST: nearly $30 billion*
WHAT HAPPENED: Sustained rainfall generated exceptional flood levels throughout the region. Hundreds of levees were breached along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and 70,000 homes were damaged, many in areas that people assumed to be [...]
By: Ryan Blitstein | October 12, 2009 | 05:00 AM (PDT) | 
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DATE: May through September 1993
LOCATION: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
DEATHS: 47 Estimated
COST: nearly $30 billion*
WHAT HAPPENED: Sustained rainfall generated exceptional flood levels throughout the region. Hundreds of levees were breached along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and 70,000 homes were damaged, many in areas that people assumed to be safe.
*All costs estimated in 2009 dollars.
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Written By:Ryan Blitstein
Ryan Blitstein is a freelance journalist based in Chicago and a Miller-McCune contributing editor. As a staff writer at the San Jose Mercury News, SF Weekly and Red Herring,, he covered everything from spray-can artists in San Francisco to homeland security start-ups in Tel Aviv. His writing has also appeared in the New York Observer, the New York Daily News and The Seattle Times. He holds degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University.
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