All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2016 // Conservationists and regulators are at odds over how much coal ash was swept away by flooding during Hurricane Matthew – state inspectors say it would fit in the bed of a pickup truck while a watchdog group argues...
Oct 21 2016 // University of Iowa is citing a copyright law to block the use of the university’s footage of a 2008 flood for an upcoming documentary.Doug Krejci, who is trying to gather materials for a documentary about eastern...
Oct 20 2016 // Travelers Cos., the sole property/casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, posted its fourth-straight profit decline as weather-related costs climbed and investment income slipped. The stock had the biggest...
Oct 20 2016 // More than 90,000 people were evacuated after Typhoon Haima left vast areas of the Philippines flooded and without electricity as the strongest storm to hit the nation this year heads toward China.Haima, a Category 5 super...
Oct 19 2016 // Fears of flooding are dissipating after rainfall helped quell a wind-whipped wildfire in Northern Nevada that destroyed 22 homes and 17 other structures in the Washoe Valley north of Carson City.Sierra Front Fire...
Oct 17 2016 // North Carolina emergency officials have estimated that the destructive and deadly Hurricane Matthew caused $1.5 billion worth of damage to more than 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings in the state.The...
Oct 17 2016 // People seeking disaster aid to help them recover from Louisiana’s catastrophic August flooding have an extra month to apply for assistance.The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced this week that the deadline...
Oct 17 2016 // Standing on the banks of the Neuse River this week, watching water creep ever-closer to the bottom of the King Street Bridge, crowds of people continually compared what was happening to what Hurricane Floyd wrought here 17...
Oct 14 2016 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has extended a previously issued emergency rule related to the historic flooding in multiple Louisiana counties in August.Emergency Rule 30 extends through Feb. 9, 2017, a...
Oct 14 2016 // Anita Van Beveren has been returning day after day to watch the brown floodwater creep toward the rental home she shares with her two teenage children. While she got many belongings out, they couldn’t move everything...
Oct 14 2016 // It’s been nearly a week since Hurricane Matthew ravaged the Southeast coast but the insurance industry’s job of responding to the devastation and assessing the total cost of damage from the storm is just...
Oct 13 2016 // Time is running out for business owners, homeowners and renters with damage from the August floods to apply for federal disaster loans.The Louisiana Department of Economic Development says the deadline to seek the...
Oct 13 2016 // Hurricane Nicole, which has become a Category 4 hurricane, will continue to lash Bermuda with winds and flooding rain through Thursday, according to a report issued by AccuWeather.As a Category 4 hurricane with sustained...
Oct 12 2016 // Authorities have received more than 1,200 disaster fraud complaints related to August’s historic flooding in south Louisiana.U.S. Attorney Walt Green announced that tally on Oct. 7 during a press briefing at the...
Oct 11 2016 // Flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew has displaced several thousand people in North Carolina, and authorities were helping more evacuate on Tuesday as swollen rivers threatened a wide swath of the state.Governor...
Oct 11 2016 // Hurricane Matthew is gone, but the disaster it unleashed will slowly unfold this week as rivers across eastern North Carolina rise to levels unseen since a similar deluge flooded thousands of homes and businesses during...
Oct 11 2016 // Sen. Bill Cassidy says Louisiana will get $437 million of the $500 million in flood recovery assistance allocated by Congress.Congress approved the $500 million in flood recovery assistance as part of a hybrid spending...
Oct 10 2016 // Almost 1 million customers were still without power in the U.S. Southeast Monday after Hurricane Matthew brought devastating wind gusts and flooding to North Carolina, leaving at least 10 dead in the state.Duke Energy...
Oct 9 2016 // Hurricane Matthew killed almost 900 people and displaced tens of thousands in Haiti before plowing northward on Saturday just off the southeast U.S. coast where it caused major flooding and widespread power outages.The...
Oct 9 2016 // Residents of the southeastern United States ravaged by Hurricane Matthew turned their focus on Monday toward recovery and clean-up, but officials in several states warned that deadly flooding could continue as swollen...