All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 31 2012 // Nearly a year after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene devastated villages up and down Vermont’s rivers, hundreds of volunteers are continuing to work with residents trying to rebuild.In Moretown last week, members...
Jul 30 2012 // A southern Kentucky county is still tackling the effects of and cleaning up from two major storms in recent years.Warren County officials said the cleanup from the 2009 ice storm and 2010 flooding could take into 2014....
Jul 30 2012 // A southeast Missouri county has been told it won’t be getting any money for damage caused by the activation of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway last year.The Southeast Missourian reports Mississippi County’s...
Jul 27 2012 // Scientists are finding evidence that man-made climate change has raised the risks of individual weather events, such as floods or heat waves, marking a big step towards pinpointing local costs and ways to adapt to freak...
Jul 24 2012 // In what turned out to be very good news for taxpayers, the environment and anyone concerned about risk mitigation, the speeding legislative train that was Sen. John Hoeven’s S. 2039 was derailed in the U.S. House...
Jul 24 2012 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, on Saturday, July 21, a heavy storm in China delivered as much as 18 inches [45.72 cms] of precipitation to parts of the country in and near the capital of Beijing...
Jul 24 2012 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced the expansion of its suite of catastrophe models for Australia “with the release of the industry’s first probabilistic bushfire model and updated tropical...
Jul 23 2012 // Global insurance companies are struggling to get a grip on their flood exposure in Asia nearly a year after one of the world’s costliest disasters hit Thailand, with executives fearing an even worse event may strike...
Jul 23 2012 // The heaviest rain to hit Beijing in six decades killed at least 10 people [latest reports put the death toll at 37] and left cars and buses submerged, and 10 other storm deaths [now at least 17] were reported elsewhere as...
Jul 23 2012 // Some of Vermont’s estimated 3,700 flood insurance customers could see their premiums increase by up to 20 percent. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the National Flood Insurance Program has been operating at a loss...
Jul 23 2012 // If it were a dam or a levee, it would have been replaced ages ago. Yet the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has stayed afloat despite a regular leaking of funds since its inception in 1968. The often-maligned...
Jul 20 2012 // Officials with the U.S. Small Business Administration are touring Douglas County to view damage from a flood there in late June. Gov. Scott Walker said the information gathered could be used to request SBA provide federal...
Jul 19 2012 // Insurers are set to pay up to £500 million [$782.3 million] or £17 million [$26.6 million] every day – to customers who have suffered flood and storm damage during the wettest June on record, according to latest...
Jul 18 2012 // Mid-morning tomorrow, I’ll be attending a meeting in Sen. John Hoeven’s (R-ND) office to debate be educated about the Senator’s bill to exempt his state from requirements that it follow federal laws about...
Jul 18 2012 // More than 3,000 lots flooded by Hurricane Katrina and bought with federal money in an emergency bailout sit idle across this city — a multimillion-dollar drain on federal, state and city coffers that lends itself to no...
Jul 18 2012 // City officials did nothing to contribute to flooding that damaged homes and belongings of property owners who live in a southeast Muskogee, Okla., neighborhood, a study shows.The city commissioned the $11,000 hydrological...
Jul 17 2012 // A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, analyzes the damages resulting from the heavy rains that have caused widespread flooding and mudslides from July 11 to July 16 on the Southern Japanese Island of...
Jul 17 2012 // Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced that it has released a cyclone model for India. “The new peer-reviewed model, which was developed out of AIR’s Hyderabad office, captures the...
Jul 16 2012 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will give $16 million in grants to communities hit by last year’s damaging storms.The state originally planned to distribute $9 million to 23 counties. But it has come up...
Jul 16 2012 // Heavy rains caused flash flooding in parts of western Arizona, and a 38-year-old man died as a result of the high waters in Lake Havasu City.Police Sgt. Joe Harrold says the death occurred Friday night as flash flooding...