When the great Mississippi River flood of 1993 strikes, Patti Brandon and her family, along with everyone in their community, must join forces to stop the rising water, and once the water recedes, everyone must pitch in to clean up the town, in a fascinating story filled with flood facts and vibrant illistrations.

Product Description: Because sediments deposited by the 1993 floods on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers were thought to contain elevated concentrations of nutrients and trace elements, sediment deposits were sampled at 25 floodplain locations. The samples were analyzed for particle size, water content, volatile solids, nutrients, carbon, selected trace elements, pesticides, and semivolatile organic compounds...read more

Recounts the history of flooding along the mighty Midwest rivers and focuses on the 1993 flood along the upper Mississippi, explaining the causes of the disaster, the role of the river basin, and why the dams and levees failed.

Product Description: Personal essays recount the desperate struggle of families and communities to save their homes and a way of life during the Great Flood of 1993. They are filled with the voices of the people and visions of the places that defined a significant moment in the cultural history of the Midwest...read more

In the spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River's devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews and survivors, official reports, and over 140 contemporary photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered most of the effects of the flood emerges alongside the details of the massive rescue and relief operation—one of the largest ever mounted in the United States. The title, Deep'n as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbell's early description of he approaching water, which, Daniel writes, "moved at a pace of some fourteen miles per day," and in its movement and sound, "had the eeriness of a full eclipse of t he sun, unsettling, chilling."