This water treatment plant in Des Moines, Iowa, was flooded by...

In the spring of 1993 U.S. weather forecasters began to worry about waves of storms in the center of the country. The mid western states were receiving more than twice as much rain as usual. Nine states received thirty inches of rain in a six-month pe-...

The Great Flood of 1993 occurred in the American Midwest, along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their tributaries, from April to October of 1993. The flood was among the most costly and devastating to ever occur in the United States, with $15...

No one can really say when the Great Flood of 1993 began. Unlike tropical storms, floods have no wind threshold to cross. Unlike tornadoes, there is no precise moment a flood touches down with the power to kill. In a sense,...

A river's flood plain plays a vital role in the natural process of flooding. It controls flooding by slowing or storing excess water. The contribution of continued flood plain development and modification in the Mississippi River to the Great Flood of 1993 is discussed....

Disaster has been both the making and the undoing of President Bush. Bush's bearing after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 _ tough yet empathetic _ felt right to the public. He rode that support to a second term, despite questions about the economy...