The great flood of 1993; part II: water, water everywhere.

The flooding of the Mississippi and other major US rivers in 1993 set a record in terms of its extensive reach and damage. Fewer lives were lost than in other floods, but the impact on the lives of the residents will be long remembered.

The extent, duration and magnitude of the Great Flood of 1993 place it as one of the greatest floods in the Mississippi River Basin to occur during the last two hundred years. Damage caused by rampaging floodwaters rank the flood as one of the costliest natural disasters to strike the United States, second only to Hurricane Andrew (see FOCUS,