Midwestern Flooding Isn’t a Natural Disaster
“Floods and hurricanes happen. The hazard itself is not the disaster—it’s our habits, our building codes.”
Historic flooding in the Missouri River and Mississippi River basins has ravaged much of the Midwest in recent days. Nebraska and Iowa bore the brunt of the devastation, but rivers in six states at more than 40 locations have reached . The swollen rivers have made short work of the levees that surround them, blasting through or over the tops of 200 miles of earthen barriers in four states. At least three people have died, and hundreds of homes and
