How Quickly We Forget: The National Flood Insurance Program and Floodplain Development in Missouri
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Chesterfield Commons, the largest strip mall in the country, would have been underwater. 1 In the summer of 1993, the rain began, and did not stop until it flooded 17,000 square miles of the Midwest, damaged 70,000 buildings, killed fifty people, and caused damages exceeding $12 billion. 2 Over a decade later, much of this land is home to new development, with tens of thousands of acres more planned.3 In the St. Louis region, more than $2.2 billion worth of new commercial and residential development currently stands on land that was under water in 1993.4 † This Note was written long before the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.Katrina and the flooding that followed the storm killed over a thousand people, displaced over a half million others, destroyed numerous towns, and covered New Orleans in over twenty feet of water.See Peter Slevin & Sylvia Moreno, Biloxi Mayor: 'This Is Our Tsunami,' WASH.
Author: Beth Towery Davidson
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2135963663