30 years ago, Kansas City was devastated and reshaped by the Floods of 1993

Call it Kansas City's cruel summer. In July 1993, the Kansas River spilled over near 59th Street and Kaw Drive in Wyandotte County, Turkey Creek flooded Southwest Boulevard, and the Missouri River came close to overtopping the levees protecting the downtown airport. Hundreds of families were displaced.
For months Kevin Carmichael brought back many of the “unknowns.”

Working with his father Darrel, the two operators of a towing service retrieved displaced caskets and burial vaults.

On July 12, 1993, Missouri River floodwaters inundated Hardin Cemetery, displacing 793 gravesites.