Flood of '93: Do You Have Photos, Memories to Share?

The worst of it hit the St. Louis area in the summer of 1993, but the Great Flood of that year, the flood that overspilled the banks and levies of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, had its genesis in the rains up river in Iowa months earlier.

I moved to Chesterfield nine years after the flood, when development was just beginning in the Valley, before Lowe's and Walmart and the movie theater. I often tell people as I drive west on Highway 40, passing the Dierbergs headquarters, that the highway vanished into the flood waters at about that point and everything beyond was under water.

Of course, I don't have any first-hand memories of the event. Perhaps you do?

Can you share your story or recollection in the comments below? Or upload a photo by clicking the button above?

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