All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2016 // Before McCarty announced his decision to leave office, he initiated dialogue with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) over the National Flood Insurance Program’s rate making. Citing the fact that the flood...
Dec 14 2016 // Authorities city say they will seek funding for rapid repairs following the collapse of a section of a creek flood wall in a northeastern Pennsylvania city.Wilkes-Barre city administrator Ted Wampole says a 40-foot section...
Dec 13 2016 // An appeals court has cleared the way for refiling of a lawsuit against an engineering firm in the deaths of four people killed in flash flooding in Pittsburgh more than five years ago.Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. earlier...
Dec 13 2016 // In January, Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate gave states a choice for dealing with climate change. Option A: Do nothing about the rising toll of extreme weather, and hope Congress’s...
Dec 12 2016 // Improvements to the Council Bluffs, Iowa, levee system continue step-by-step as city officials keep hoping it’s fast enough to beat federal government action that could cost homeowners a boatload of cash in flood...
Dec 8 2016 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has a plan to continue furthering its initiatives within the private flood insurance market in 2017.This comes after the North Central part of the state of Pennsylvania saw flooding in...
Dec 8 2016 // The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season concluded on Nov. 30 with 15 named storms generating seven hurricanes, three of which were considered major ones, according to the industry’s Insurance Information Institute...
Dec 5 2016 // The National Flood Insurance Program has paid out more than $162 million to victims in the five-state area hit by Hurricane Matthew—Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the Federal Emergency...
Dec 5 2016 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says federal authorities have granted his request for an extension of the filing deadline for those affected by August floods to submit a proof of loss claim. Edwards, in a statement, said...
Dec 5 2016 // Thousands of property owners may have to purchase flood insurance for the first time as new flood maps go into effect next year in Davidson County.The Federal Emergency Management Agency last month finalized revised flood...
Dec 2 2016 // Virginia suffered only a glancing blow from Hurricane Matthew last month when unprecedented amounts of rain fell, but on Wednesday officials estimated flood damage to be hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the...
Dec 2 2016 // PERILS AG has today disclosed its fourth and final loss estimate for the floods in the UK which occurred Dec. 4-24, 2015 and were linked to storm Desmond and other low pressure systems.The revised estimate of the insured...
Nov 28 2016 // When floodwaters poured into Holly Furlong’s Virginia Beach home in October, she ripped out electrical cords and rushed her four children upstairs. They spent the next two days without power, building blanket forts...
Nov 28 2016 // Vocational students from across West Virginia are building tiny houses to help some people struggling to recover from flooding this year.Students from 12 vocational schools are designing and building the houses, which will...
Nov 22 2016 // Although Atlantic hurricane season ends in November, cleanup from any damage seen on the East Coast could last beyond the end of the season. Some coastal areas, such as Virginia Beach, were impacted this season,...
Nov 22 2016 // It’s a different concept, a way to build at ground level in a flood zone. And it’s working for a business in Jackson County, Miss.DaBayou Bar & Grill may look thrown together, but there is a lot of planning...
Nov 21 2016 // A tropical moisture system resulting from Hurricane Matthew swept through Atlantic Canada last month, resulting in more than $100 million in insured damage, according to Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), which quoted a...
Nov 21 2016 // As residents of coastal Louisiana, New York and New Jersey have discovered, a house with a sea view can carry a serious and soggy downside. In terms of storms and their severity, a building’s location has never...
Nov 17 2016 // The voice of Zurich North America Chief Legal Officer Dennis Kerrigan swelled with pride as he described the carrier’s new headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill., and its importance to Zurich’s overall philosophy...
Nov 16 2016 // Thousands of property owners may have to purchase flood insurance for the first time as new flood maps go into effect next year in Davidson County.The Federal Emergency Management Agency last month finalized revised flood...