Floating on '93 floodwaters

Coast Guard Petty Officer Mike Sanders, left, and Petty Officer Tommy Wright, both of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Coast Guard Reserve Unit, escort Cape Girardeau County Health Department administrator Charlotte Craig and Howard Courtney, Cape County Health Department environmental sanitarian, Monday, Aug. 9, 1993, in Red Star District. They were checking with residents who might have health concerns because of flooding. This was the day after the Mississippi River crested at 48.49 feet, a new record that was, in turn, supplanted in 2016.