All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 5 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded Louisiana an additional $146 million to reimburse state and local governments for debris removal and other expenses related to this summer’s historic flooding.The...
Oct 4 2016 // Council Bluffs, Iowa, officials are working to strengthen the levees protecting the western Iowa city before homeowners are forced to pay higher premiums for flood insurance.The Daily Nonpareil reports the city wants to...
Oct 3 2016 // Experts warn the Carolinas will face droughts and deluges in coming years.Scientists, farmers and water managers met in Charlotte recently to explore ways to deal with coming dry weather and the sudden flooding that the...
Oct 3 2016 // West Virginia lawmakers addressed recovery costs from deadly floods in June in a brief session last month.The Senate adjourned Sept. 20 after a two-day session that also included the confirmation of gubernatorial...
Oct 3 2016 // In advance of expected late September flooding in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-area, state Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart issued a bulletin requesting the assistance of both property/casualty and life/health insurance...
Oct 3 2016 // The federal government has contracted with private reinsurers to improve the National Flood Insurance Program’s claims paying ability and reduce the need for the NFIP to borrow from the U.S. Treasury to cover future...
Sep 30 2016 // Wisconsin emergency management officials say the damage to homes, businesses and public infrastructure from flooding that started last week is now approaching $20 million.In an update on Sept. 28, the State Emergency...
Sep 30 2016 // Storms that dumped as much as 8 inches of rain prompted rescues from rising waters and the closing schools in two North Carolina counties.Storms inundated areas around Raleigh and to the south overnight Wednesday, knocking...
Sep 29 2016 // Damaging hail storms and wide-spread flooding have caused record setting losses for both homes and automobiles this year in Texas, according to a state insurance trade group.This year’s insured losses for the first...
Sep 29 2016 // Wisconsin emergency management officials say the damage to homes, businesses and public infrastructure from flooding that started last week is approaching $10 million. In an update night, the State Emergency Operations...
Sep 29 2016 // Insured losses on mainland China from September’s Typhoon Meranti are expected to fall between $650 million (CNY 4.3 billion) and $1.15 billion (CNY 7.7 billion).According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide,...