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<text id=93TT0232>
<title>
July 26, 1993: From The Publisher
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
July 26, 1993 The Flood Of '93
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
FROM THE PUBISHER, Page 4
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<p> Like the overflowing waters of the Mississippi, TIME's flood-coverage
team spread out across the land last week. It was obvious to
Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull that a major disaster required
a major effort, and he divvied up a wide range of assignments.
Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor headed off for Des Moines, Iowa;
reporter Staci Kramer viewed the damage in St. Louis, Missouri,
from a helicopter; and St. Paul, Minnesota, reporter Marc Hequet
examined relief efforts as well as the health impact of contaminated
water throughout the region. It would be a trying but fulfilling
week for all.
</p>
<p> Hull himself flew from Chicago to St. Louis to rendezvous with
photographer Bill Campbell, and within an hour of landing, both
were on a boat in St. Charles County, just north of the city,
reporting on the calamity firsthand and uncovering the kind
of anecdotes about human nature that catastrophes seem to inspire.
Says Hull: "The man who gave us a lift on his boat seemed more
upset by the fact that the floods had forced him to move back
with his ex-wife than with the massive destruction itself."
And in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, prisoners and housewives worked
side by side tossing sandbags. Hull was impressed by the resilience
of flood victims, many of whom maintained a spirit of teamwork
and humor in the face of exhaustion and tragedy.
</p>
<p> Meanwhile in Detroit, business correspondent William McWhirter
was covering the financial aspect of the flood--and he was
also thinking back to his younger days in Kansas City, Missouri,
hit hard by the great 1951 floods. Correspondent Taylor was
collecting some new memories of the flood of 1993. "There was
an eerie normality to life in Des Moines," she says. "With Guardsmen
patrolling the empty streets, humidity oppressive and helicopters
circling in the sky, it seemed like a M*A*S*H episode." TIME's
photographers--Steve Liss, Ron Haviv, Najlah Feanny and Fritz
Hoffmann--were scouring the area to capture such scenes on
film.
</p>
<p> Back in Chicago, senior correspondent Madeleine Nash, reporter
Julie Grace and photo researcher Mary Thompson were monitoring
developments and keeping the members of TIME's team in contact
with one another. Perhaps the most dramatic contribution of
all came from photographer Liss, a pilot. Ignoring the misgivings
of police at the airport, he flew a small aircraft through a
thunderstorm from Des Moines to Jefferson City, Missouri, to
take the photo that graces this week's cover.
</p>
<p> Elizabeth Valk Long
</p>
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