All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 29 2012 // In the busy and under-staffed offices of New Orleans’ flood-control leaders, there’s an uneasy feeling about what lies ahead.By the time the next hurricane season starts in June of 2013, the city will take...
Nov 28 2012 // Georgia’s Attorney General Sam Olens issued a consumer alert notice last week, warning consumers who are in the market for used cars to beware of flood-damaged vehicles in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.Attorney...
Nov 28 2012 // The White House is expected in the coming days to send Congress a multibillion dollar request to fund recovery from Superstorm Sandy, which caused an estimated $71 billion in damages in New York and New...
Nov 28 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has issued a preliminary report on the floods caused by the heavy rainfall that began lashing the British Isles on Thursday, November 22, prompting hundreds of flood warnings and...
Nov 27 2012 // A Stone Age camp that used to be by the shore is now 200 km (125 miles) from the Baltic Sea. Sheep graze on what was the seabed in the 15th century, and Sweden’s port of Lulea risks getting too shallow for ships.In...
Nov 26 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide today revised up its industrywide Sandy insured loss estimates to the $16 billion-$22 billion range.AIR Worldwide had previously estimated on Oct. 30 — the day after Sandy made...
Nov 26 2012 // Some residents of New Jersey’s coastal towns may soon be required to purchase flood insurance, and not just because of the recent devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.By next year, the Federal Emergency Management...
Nov 26 2012 // The UK is currently experiencing a protracted series of floods, which have swept up the west coast of the country through Wales and into the Midlands. Two deaths have been reported, and over 800 homes and businesses have...
Nov 21 2012 // Almost four years after the Federal Emergency Management Agency released preliminary flood risk maps for Louisiana’s Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, officials don’t know when the final maps will come out.The...
Nov 21 2012 // AIR Worldwide recently concluded damage survey of areas impacted by Superstorm Sandy, which made landfall on Oct. 29, five miles southwest of Atlantic City, New Jersey.On November 11, 2012, AIR teams were deployed to...
Nov 21 2012 // “Reduced for Quick Sale!” reads Mike Montalbano’s Craigslist ad for the three-bedroom home he needs to sell before he can relocate for a new job.The drywall is new, as are the appliances. The only...
Nov 20 2012 // When Superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast with high winds and a massive storm surge, 111 homes in the Queens, New York, neighborhood of Breezy Point were destroyed by a fast-spreading fire.This week, the Consumer...
Nov 19 2012 // In one of its overlooked bipartisan accomplishments last session, Congress, with backing from the insurance industry, managed to approve changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that should help put the...
Nov 16 2012 // The Mississippi city of Corinth and the Kroger Co. have asked a federal judge to dismiss them as defendants in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth.Kmart Corp. is seeking compensation for flood damage at...
Nov 16 2012 // A study has concluded that Minot, N.D., has $1 billion in unmet needs as it continues to recover from historic Souris River flooding in 2011.The Minot City Council spent $125,000 of federal grant money to commission the...
Nov 16 2012 // More businesses are expressing interest in purchasing flood insurance coverage from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in the wake of Superstorm Sandy’s heavy rain, record storm surge, and resulting...
Nov 16 2012 // U.S. droughts, floods and heat waves likely fueled by climate change in the last two years hit the people who can afford it the least – the poor and middle class, a report published on Friday said.In affected areas...
Nov 16 2012 // The scenes rolling in from the New Jersey shore are devastating, and not just to the people whose homes were destroyed. Also damaged are the “retire with a water view” dreams of others who had aspired to...
Nov 15 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide published a field survey report on Wednesday, Nov. 14, detailing damages their representatives saw in some of the hardest-hit areas post-Sandy.According to AIR Worldwide,...
Nov 14 2012 // Damage from storm surge and flooding caused by Superstorm Sandy is widespread and extensive — but there is only minor damage to buildings from direct wind, according a field survey report this week from Willis...