All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 5 2011 // Tropical Storm Emily broke apart over the mountains of Haiti and the Dominican Republic Thursday, but its remnants still packed rains threatening flash floods and mudslides in the neighboring Caribbean countries.The U.S....
Aug 5 2011 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp., has released the latest edition of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during...
Aug 4 2011 // A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit three southwestern Illinois counties filed to block the U.S. government from declaring the region’s levees functionally useless. U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert called the...
Aug 4 2011 // Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year’s earthquake.A “steady shield of...
Aug 2 2011 // A Long Island congressman says 13 families who lost their homes in flooding more than a year ago will likely receive federal aid.Rep. Steve Bishop tells Newsday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency informed his...
Aug 1 2011 // MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. _ The levee system along the Walla Walla River is badly in need of repair in one Eastern Oregon town, costing homeowners a flood insurance premium until the system is fixed.The U.S. Army Corps of...
Jul 26 2011 // Along a newly paved road at Harless Creek in Kentucky’s Pike County, dozens of new vehicles and a handful of new modular homes point to progress since severe flooding hit the area a year ago.At Raccoon Creek, freshly...
Jul 25 2011 // A New Orleans judge has approved a $25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed over the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina.The deal was reached between Tenet Healthcare Corp.,...
Jul 25 2011 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced the release of its Central America tropical cyclone model. “The new model covers Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and...
Jul 25 2011 // Officials say federal and state disaster assistance for victims of North Dakota flooding has gone over the $50 million mark.The money includes grants and low-interest loans. It has gone to residents in Barnes, Burleigh,...
Jul 25 2011 // President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Wyoming because of spring and summer flooding, opening the way for the federal government to help the state pay for costs incurred from damaged roads, highways and...
Jul 25 2011 // Residents of Lake McAlester in Oklahoma are no longer in a Federal Emergency Management Area flood zone after an uncommon re-mapping of the area.“This is the only area in the state of Oklahoma that has been ever been...
Jul 22 2011 // Some Iowa officials say they’d like to keep in place temporary dikes, berms and levees that were hurriedly built to protect people and property from Missouri River floodwater.Woodbury County emergency management...
Jul 22 2011 // The people who oversee 64 miles of aging Mississippi River levees in southwestern Illinois have signed off on a $151 million plan to upgrade the barriers perhaps by 2014.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the Southwestern...
Jul 18 2011 // With rivers running above flood stage and soils saturated, forecasters have predicted the 2011 summer flooding season could rival the worst in U.S. history. In the “Great Flood of 1993,” record-breaking floods...
Jul 18 2011 // While South Central states suffer from drought, the Midwest is paddling upstream against too much water and the flooding has once again put the spotlight on the National Flood Insurance Program with all its faults and...
Jul 18 2011 // While South Central states suffer from drought, the Midwest is paddling upstream against too much water and the flooding has once again put the spotlight on the National Flood Insurance Program with all its faults and...
Jul 15 2011 // Overseers of levees in southwestern Illinois welcomed the advance of a federal measure that could give thousands of property owners up to a five-year reprieve in having to buy costly flood insurance in areas with...
Jul 15 2011 // The commander of the North Dakota National Guard says flood-related costs in the state are expected to top $1 billion.Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk told state lawmakers that officials are prepared to handle the state share...
Jul 13 2011 // Title insurer Fidelity National Financial Inc. has sold its flood insurance operations to WRM America Holdings LLC.Under the terms of the definitive agreement, WRM America of Uniondale, New York, will acquire 100 percent...