The Great Flood of 1993, so far, has contributed to 43 deaths in eight states and devastated crops in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota and elsewhere; now the Midwest is bracing itself for the Great Bill. While cost estimates of cleaning up the deluge are starting to pour in like river water through a levee of sandbags, flood victims are wondering how the impressive damage estimates and aid packages relate to them and their losses. Complains Allen Seeburger, an uninsured farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, who lost his corn and wheat harvest to the flood: "It takes $100 of...
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