During one of the nation's costliest floods, one flood-prone community was sent scurrying after a levee gave way. On July 22, 1993, 32 years ago today, a section of an earthen levee along the ...

Pages from Post-Dispatch coverage of the 1993 flooding. Editions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch during the Flood of 1993. Through the spring, summer and fall, the flood dominated the front page.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Flooded farms near Valmeyer are part of about 70,000 acres of cropland under water in Monroe County. The Illinois town had ...

Since floodwaters ravaged Cedar City and other river towns in 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has spent more than $2 billion to buy 36,707 properties nationwide, according to figures ...

More than 30 years ago, floods swept across Iowa from the Mississippi River to the Missouri River, destroying homes, businesses and lives. Here are some of the key events and images from the great ...

ST. LOUIS -- Even with rivers pouring over their banks and more heavy rain in the forecast, comparisons to 1993 are premature, experts say. The Great Flood of 1993 bowled over levees, ripped away ...

The flood fight feels similar to the Great Flood of 1993, when large swaths of downtown Davenport had been swallowed by the floodwaters. River Drive now lives up to its name, submerged by the ...

Of all the memorable anecdotes to come out of Davenport during the Great Flood of 1993, then-mayor Pat Gibbs may have the crest. He was in the shower one soggy summer day in 1993 when his cell phone ...

Nationwide since 1993, Federal Emergency Management Agency mitigation programs have moved or flood-proofed about 30,000 properties. And just within a 50-mile radius of St. Louis, the Army Corps of ...