ORDER NOW! COntentS 1932 Chapter One ...... 13 iTy siNce c How Could This Happen? NorTheasT of hisToric The voice Chapter twO ...... 19 June 5, 2013 Beginning the Great Deluge FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chapter three ...... 27 The Hardin Cemetery Disaster Northeast News, an award winning community newspaper is proud to Chapter FOUr ...... 31 Kansas City's Flooding in an Historic Town announce the release of a new book by nationally renowned outdoor writer Kenneth L Kieser. Chapter FIVe ...... 41 Flooding Down by the Riverside "'s Great of 1993 - revisiting an epic natural disaster" is being released Chapter SIX ...... 46 June 10th and will be available in soft or hard cover throughout the A United States Presidential Citation Valley. Chapter SeVen ...... 67 Through Kenny's up close and personal experiences during the flood combined with St. Joseph, Missouri’s Planning personal interviews with those who survived the flood, Kieser weaves a compelling and introspective view in to what was called "Missouri's 500 year flood". Chapter eIGht ...... 77 An Airforce Underwater "We wanted to provide a comprehensive document of history that outlines not only how, meteorologically the flood occurred, but also how those who lived through the Chapter nIne ...... 83 flood survived and rebuilt after the waters receded" said Mr. Kieser as he stood on Lewis and Clark Oxbow the banks of the Missouri River near Riverside, MO. Chapter ten ...... 87 The Great Sheep Flotilla, an Incredible Escape and Mound City Avoids Disaster From where the Missouri River crosses the -Missouri state line in Northwest Missouri to its confluence with the near St. Charles, MO, Chapter eLeVen ...... 93 Missouri's Great Flood of 1993 is packed full of photographs from Kieser's personal The Flooded Town That Became A Hollywood Movie Set collection as well as photographs from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Chapter tweLVe ...... 97 the United States Geological Survey and a variety of other sources re-telling the story European Kindness and Flooded St. Charles County Farms that gripped a nine state area in the mid-west [email protected] the summer of 1993. or by calling Chapter thIrteen ...... 103 If you would like to book a signing event or carry this exciting new book in your Lessons Learned from the Chesterfield Valley Disaster retail outlet, please contact Kenneth L. Kieser at Chapter FOUrteen ...... 109 the author 913-424-8128 or contact Michael Bushnell at The Northeast News Missouri’ State Capital in Peril, Danger in the River and the Demise of Cedar City ([email protected]). Chapter FIFteen ...... 131 ======www.northeastnews.net and click on the A German Town Isolated by Flood Waters For online ordering information, visit Chapter SIXteen ...... 137 FLOOD BOOK tab on the left hand side of the page. Wholesale pricing available to A Bright Future licensed dealers. Library system discounts available. epILOGUe ...... 159 www.northeastnews.net  [email protected]  fax: 816-241-3255  phOtO CreDItS ...... 160 phone: 816-241-0765  Kansas City, Missouri 64123  A bad day for Parkville, Mo. – Photo by Kenneth L. Kieser 5715 St. John Avenue Available Now!

A new book from award winning outdoors writer Kenny Kieser and The Northeast News.

Missouri’s Great Flood of 1993

A 20 year retrospective of the 1993 flood that inundated the for weeks during the summer of 1993.

Available in commemorative hardback or soft cover.

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