Mississippi flood of 1993

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Mississippi_flood_of_1993

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:dam
gptkbp:affectedArea	gptkb:Illinois gptkb:Iowa gptkb:Kansas gptkb:Kentucky gptkb:Minnesota gptkb:Missouri gptkb:Nebraska gptkb:North_Dakota gptkb:South_Dakota gptkb:Tennessee gptkb:Wisconsin
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Great_Flood_of_1993
gptkbp:casualties	50
gptkbp:cause	snowmelt persistent heavy rainfall
gptkbp:damagedHomes	over 50,000
gptkbp:damagedLevees	over 1,000 levees failed
gptkbp:displacedPeople	over 54,000
gptkbp:economicImportance	$15 billion
gptkbp:endDate	October 1993
gptkbp:environmentalImpact	destroyed farmland altered river courses wetland restoration in some areas
gptkbp:governmentResponse	FEMA involvement
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	one of the costliest and most devastating floods in U.S. history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Mississippi flood of 1993
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Midwestern_United_States gptkb:Mississippi_River gptkb:Missouri_River
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	extensive national and international coverage
gptkbp:memorial	flood markers in affected towns
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:Kansas_City,_Missouri gptkb:St._Louis,_Missouri gptkb:Des_Moines,_Iowa
gptkbp:notableEvent	Des Moines lost water supply for 12 days Grafton, Illinois evacuated Valmeyer, Illinois relocated
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Great_Flood_of_1927
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Mississippi_River_floods
gptkbp:startDate	April 1993
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Mississippi_River_floods gptkb:Mississippi_River_flood
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8