The Great floods of '93

[MoCarp]

anyone in Missouri old enough will remember that year, my brother and I spoke the other day of the cattle still rotting in the tree tops on a stream we used to fish months after the flood...the quality is poor on this recording but still informative

 

 

[MOPanfisher]

Yep I remember it.

[Bushbeater]

We thought 73 was bad till 93. Mississippi hit 47' at St. Louis. Lost alot of fun clubhouse spots on the Meramec and Mississippi.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Oh I remember.  Scoured Chesterfield Valley pretty good.  It has 3 times the businesses now.  Crazy!!!  Never build in the flood plain.

[fishinwrench]

The old crews that controlled Bagnell and Truman during that time, they handled that like a boss.  The newer generation of decision makers at those places haven't figured it out yet.   Hopefully they will before their retirement so we don't have to suffer through another long period of stupidity like we are currently.

[ollie]

Lived through it in Alton at the time.  My son was born on July 9th during a wicked thunderstorm!  His aunt suggested that I named him Noah, but we didn't.  Also remember not having water for 2 weeks until the water went down and they could clean up the pump station. I watched more than one house floating down the stream that year!

[moguy1973]

I was living in Cape Girardeau at the time in my 3rd year going to school there.  We had rented a house  just up the street from Sloan Creek and the creek rose up enough to flood the basement of the house.  We had to live across the street with some friends that lived in a house on a hill.  Their house just about became an island if it wasn't for the alley that ran behind the house so we could come and go.  Being stupid college students (kind of contradictory right?) we lived in the house we rented the rest of the year.  Who knows what sort of mold we breathed in during that year.  We didn't care though, it was $75/month for rent.  That house was torn down about 5 years after I graduated and nothing has been built there since.

[Terrierman]

I drove a motorboat over Highway 71 a few miles north of Nevada during that flood.  Trees were full of ants and mice and anything that didn't have gills.  So were the exposed parts - if any - of barns, houses and anything above water.  Had a souvenier pecan for a lot of years until the boy knocked it off the mantle and vacuumed it up.  Lived in Holts Summit at the time and officed in Jefferson City.  That washout of Highway 54 on the Callaway side of the river was a major pain.

[Bushbeater]

I was floating the Current River when the first major storm in our area hit. Fish were biting like crazy. Caught several nice trout on Zoom Lizards. It ended up raining so hard we had to take shelter under the canoes. When we finally go moving again the Water Patrol and Conservation Agents were running the river to get everyone off. When we got to Akers they were moving everything up the hill preparing for a flood. The river had about a 12' rise that night.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Living in St Charles County we went flood watching all the time.  Seemed like it lasted forever.