Flooding in the Midwest

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Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I just read a story on ajc.com that had been edited to insert that the floods would have been much worse had FEMA not purchased land after the 1993 floods.

I've never heard anything resembling this - link?

FEMA funds have been so awkward after the '93 floods that the biggest levee breach in Des Moines has been on a FEMA list since then as a "high-priority" failure point according to the ACE, but without any sort of Congressional action to enact the funding.