The Great Mississippi Flood In The United States

The devastation brought on the Midwestern part of the United States by what became known as the “Great Mississippi Flood of 1993. The United States had labored to reduce the vulnerability of its people to flood damages and yet this flood had destroyed tens of thousands of homes, flooded hundreds of thousands of acres of prime farmland and had disrupted the economic and social fabric of several million people. National leaders as well as private citizens not only raised questions about how such flood damages occurred, but demanded to know what should be done to prevent recurrences of these damages. The Mississippi River and its tributaries have played a major role in the United States history. Their existence was critical to the growth of the