Talk:Great Flood of 1993

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what about someone who believes in a Great Flood

That would be covered under Great Flood, which redirects to Deluge (mythology). - jredmond 22:23, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

i think that this website is not smart because someone could easily edit and destroy this website....--65.188.212.23 18:46, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

And it's just as easy, if not easier, to fix the place. - jredmond 20:32, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] better pic needed

I can't believe that the barn pic is the best thing anyone could find. Doesn't anyone else remember the river roaring through that levee breech and just annihilating that farmhouse, then bulldozing all the trees for a quarter-mile?--Mike18xx 08:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The flood and KC's airport

This article states that the flood of '51 was the impetus for the creation of a new airport (KCI) away from the river, in reference to the downtown airport. I thought that the need for KCI arose out of the fact that the runways of the downtown airport could not be expanded to handle larger jets, constrained by local geography (one end of the runway ends right at the river). There were other reasons for building it way out there that had to do with planning the growth of the city, and though I'm having trouble pinning it down, I don't recall the need to escape the possibility of the river flooding being a significant factor. Anyways, I'll mark that segment as citation needed for a bit and see if anyone knows the answer. --Reverend Loki 16:59, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

The damaged airport was Fairfax Airport in KCK (where TWA had its overhaul base and where Mid-Continent Airlines delivered the airmail). I rewrote the section to make it clearer. Americasroof 17:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] water volumes in relation to flood height

Someone should document the controversy between what the Corp of Engineers says and what academics (who imho know what is going on) say about what historic flood volumes were and how the Corp changed historic floods amounts, some say to make it look like the levee program had less effect on flood levels. Books were written by Robert Criss and Pinter if I remember right.

My first comment, I hope I did it right.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.81.244.221 (talk) 15:33, 9 March 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia! You got it close, but not quite right. Might want to glance oer the talk page guidelines when you get a chance. Remember, new comments go on the bottom of the page, and always sign your talk page posts. I'm assuming you tried to do so with the three equals signs, but that's not the right symbol to use. The best way to sign is with four tildes (~), which is found in the upper left corner of your keyboard (most likely, anyways). I also highly recommend that you create an account and sign into it whenever you make an edit - helps you to keep track of what you've done, as well as creates a unique identifier for yourself on here, and makes it easier for people to leave you messages. Anyways, you make some excellent points... --Reverend Loki 22:33, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

On a related note, I wonder if the figures quoted in the introductory section of this article should also have the United States customary units conversions, for those who use that system of measure instead of the metric system. [[Briguy52748 00:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)]]