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Before-and-after satellite images of the St. Louis, Missouri, region show the orderly path of the Mississippi River and its tributaries in 1991 and the catastrophic flooding that occurred when unusually heavy rains caused them to overflow their banks in 1993. High water along the Mississippi persisted that summer for nearly five months and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Photograph courtesy NASA