All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 28 2011 // Last month’s Hurricane Irene was a rude awakening for many East coast residents and businesses that reminded them the importance of flood insurance. Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administer the National...
Sep 28 2011 // For disaster victims rebuilding their homes, towns and lives, the anxiety is matched only by anger at Congress for entangling their future in a political battle over government spending.A sharply divided Congress has...
Sep 28 2011 // Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters, dodging branches and flying debris Tuesday as a powerful typhoon sent surging waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls and submerging entire neighborhoods.At...
Sep 27 2011 // Denham Springs, La., has improved its flood rating, which will mean insurance savings for city residents with flood insurance.City officials say improving both record keeping and enforcement of the city’s floodplain...
Sep 27 2011 // A western Pennsylvania lawmaker is proposing to divert some of the money from the “Johnstown Flood Tax” on alcohol back to its original purpose — flood and other disaster relief.Sen. John Wozniak, D-Cambria,...
Sep 26 2011 // The National Wildlife Federation plans to sue the federal government, saying it has failed to ensure that the national flood insurance program hasn’t harmed endangered salmon, or the orca whales that feed on the...
Sep 26 2011 // As the Missouri River slowly recedes, farmers seeing their fields for the first time since June are encountering sand dunes, strange debris and deep gouges the floodwaters carved into their once-fertile land.The soil...
Sep 26 2011 // A new flood map for Lafayette Parish could be completed by next year, the first update since 1996 for a document that affects insurance rates and the required elevation of new construction in flood zones. The Federal...
Sep 26 2011 // The federal program that insures homes against flood damage expires next Friday and is at risk of not being renewed, even as an early fall storm threatens to inundate much of the northeastern United States yet...
Sep 23 2011 // In the wake of spring flooding and additional flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene, state and federal officials are encouraging Vermonters to sign up for federally-backed flood insurance before the end of the month,...
Sep 23 2011 // State and federal officials are cautioning South Dakota flood victims that time might be running out to file flood insurance claims. Normally, claims for flood damage under policies underwritten by the National Flood...
Sep 22 2011 // Global insurance broker Marsh held a webcast on Sept. 21, where the firm’s analysts shared their views on the current business environment including the effects of Hurricane Irene and other catastrophes.The broker...
Sep 22 2011 // The House of Representatives unexpectedly defeated a bill that would fund the federal government [including the federal flood insurance program] past Sept. 30 Wednesday as dozens of Republicans broke with their party to...
Sep 21 2011 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide more than a million people were evacuated in central and western Japan in advance of Typhoon Roke’s arrival. The storm formed on September 10 and is the 15th named...
Sep 20 2011 // A group of business owners in the Vermont town of Wilmington, devastated by Tropical Storm Irene, are going to raise recovery money with an event they’re calling “floodstock.”On Friday and Saturday eight...
Sep 20 2011 // President Barack Obama endorsed key elements of a U.S. flood insurance reform bill passed by the House in the tax and deficit plan he unveiled Monday, even as the reform has stalled in the Senate without a clear path...
Sep 19 2011 // Congress is poised to pass yet another short-term extension of the federal flood insurance program, giving it more time to consider two competing bills reforming the debt-ridden program.The House could vote this Wednesday...
Sep 19 2011 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates it will cost more than $2 billion to repair the damage to the nation’s levees, dams and riverbanks caused by this year’s excessive flooding, a sum that dwarfs $150...
Sep 19 2011 // After months of sustained, historic Midwest flooding and criticism that the government bungled its management of the Missouri River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it has commissioned a study of its handling of the...
Sep 19 2011 // Customer satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies this year is up from 2010, but still remains below levels achieved in 2009.Overall satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies averages 769 in 2011 —...