All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 14 2014 // Grand Rapids, Mich., plans to spend $4.2 million to repair and improve its floodwall system, after engineers identified weaknesses exposed by a storm last spring that flooded the Grand River threatened to swamp the...
Jan 14 2014 // Residents in a suburban Buffalo neighborhood are dealing with the aftermath of weekend flooding that has left dozens of homes damaged.Local media outlets report that about 70 homes in West Seneca’s Lexington Green...
Jan 13 2014 // Vermont officials are warning of flooding potential in Montpelier due to an ice jam on the Winooski River.The Montpelier Emergency Management Team is monitoring a significant rise in water levels of the river’s north...
Jan 13 2014 // With thousands of Florida residents facing dramatic increases in their flood insurance premiums, state lawmakers are preparing the groundwork for a private market option to premiums charged by the federal flood insurance...
Jan 13 2014 // In 2013, there were 296 separate natural disaster events that produced total economic losses of $192 billion – four percent below the 10-year average of $200 billion, but above the average 259 events, according to a...
Jan 13 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone.Justice is one of...
Jan 13 2014 // Free Speech Ripoff“This case is really important because businesses should not be able to silence their customers.” —Scott Michelman of nonprofit Public Citizen Litigation Group says the case of a Utah couple...
Jan 9 2014 // Opponents of delaying Biggert-Waters flood insurance reforms and stopping the resulting premium hikes say the negative effects are being exaggerated and instead of gutting all of the reforms, Congress should target its...
Jan 8 2014 // Vice President Joe Biden and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that New York and the nation’s other coastal states have to rebuild against severe storms and flooding that are likely in the future.“Extreme...
Jan 7 2014 // The U.S. Senate is expected to take a key vote soon on a bill that would delay some of the flood insurance rate hikes triggered by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012.The procedural vote will determine...
Jan 7 2014 // In its annual review of loss events in the past year, Munich Re emphasized the “exceptionally high losses from weather-related catastrophes in Europe and Supertyphoon Haiyan,” which, the report said,...
Jan 6 2014 // Joel Kirby loaded his young stepson Seth into his truck in the rain and headed over to the mall.“Despicable Me 2” was playing, and a movie on a damp summer night seemed like a good idea while his wife, Elisha,...
Jan 3 2014 // The massive winter storm that impacted the Midwest and Northeast over the past couple of days is moving into the Atlantic on Friday, while very cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills are moving in behind the system,...
Jan 3 2014 // U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Thursday joined residents and local officials in Brick, N.J., to call on Congress to pass the Homeowner’s Flood Insurance Affordability Act.The bipartisan, bicameral bill,...
Jan 2 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone.Justice is one of...
Jan 2 2014 // Donald Hargraves is flooded with nostalgia when he drives past the Shickshinny, Penn., home he owned for more than five decades but doesn’t regret recently selling the property in a flood-buyout program.“I...
Dec 30 2013 // Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are over.U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. has dismissed the cases. The...
Dec 30 2013 // A Florida insurance agency that stepped forward last month to offer a private market stand-alone flood coverage policy in Florida has started marketing the policy in six other states.The Gainesville, Fla.-based Flood...
Dec 30 2013 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, over the last several days, a series of three winter storms (named Christian, Dirk, and Erich) cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes across the UK and France and...
Dec 27 2013 // Fidelity National Property & Casualty Insurance Co. was recently sued in a New York court over flood insurance policies. The suit alleges the insurer retroactively canceled flood policies for Dayton Towers...