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 Rogue's Gallery of Natural Disasters: Flood
The droughts were followed by periods of above-average precipitation, which resulted in flooding such as the Mississippi River floods of 1993. There was also flooding in the Pacific Northwest in the fall of 1995 and 1996. The Ohio River flooded in January 1996, and the Red River, in the spring of 1997. While flooding is not new, many of these floods were severe. The Mississippi flood was a 100- or 200-year flood, and the Red River flood is thought to have been a 500-year flood.
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These landsat images illustrate the extent of the flooding in Missouri during the record rains of 1993. The left image (L02403300932310) was taken in late August 1993, at the height of the flood. The flooded Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois Rivers stand out vividly in this image. Water covers much of the flood plain along each of the rivers. St. Louis is located just below the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. The right image (L0240330096272) was taken in late September 1996, and shows the rivers in a typical year. The flood plains are also apparent in the 1996 image even without the flood waters because they are characterized by slightly different types of vegetation and land use. Each image is about 185 km across. North is to the upper left. Acknowledgment: These data are distributed by the EROS Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (EDC DAAC), located at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, SD.

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