All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 18 2011 // Emergency workers in nearly half of California counties will be practicing for a catastrophic flood this week — a drill given added urgency by the once-in-a-generation flooding in the Mississippi River delta 2,300...
May 18 2011 // Ann Flood has been appointed Chief Deputy Commissioner in Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR), effective May 17, 2011. She will oversee OFIR’s Office of General Counsel, Health Plans...
May 18 2011 // Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain D.V.M., said the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has guaranteed that Morganza Spillway farmers whose crops have been damaged by flooding caused by the...
May 17 2011 // The key waterway for U.S. grain exports was cut off Monday when the U.S. Coast Guard closed the Mississippi River near Natchez, Mississippi.The Coast Guard said 15 miles of the Mississippi was closed to all traffic to...
May 17 2011 // According to a bulletin on its web site, the Insurance Council of Australia has released updated figures on “how the general industry has responded to the enormous task of assessing over 118,000 insurance claims...
May 16 2011 // Waters unleashed by the opening of a key Mississippi River floodway crept through the Louisiana bayou Monday in a surge that could leave thousands of homes and farms under as much as 20 feet of water.The U.S. Army Corps of...
May 16 2011 // The opening of a key spillway to relieve flooding along the Mississippi River could create logistical headaches for big Gulf Coast refiners, but will likely spare the lion’s share of the area’s refining...
May 16 2011 // The flooding that has inundated low-lying communities and farmland for miles along the Upper and Lower Mississippi River is due to a large, slow-moving storm system that was spawned nearly a month ago.“The flooding...
May 16 2011 // Major U.S. insurers are pushing to gain control of 800,000 former State Farm flood insurance policies as lawmakers contemplate reforms to the nation’s flood insurance system.The conflict began last year when State...
May 16 2011 // More than 1.8 million homes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are at great risk of being damaged by a hurricane, three times the number located in federally defined flood zones, according to a recently released report.The...
May 16 2011 // More than 1.8 million homes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are at great risk of being damaged by a hurricane, three times the number located in federally defined flood zones, according to a report released Tuesday.The...
May 16 2011 // Given the recent flooding, hurricanes and earthquakes, it appears the number of catastrophic events that inflict mass casualties and severe economic losses has increased – so much so that Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan,...
May 16 2011 // Banning ‘Storm Vultures’Senate Bill 101 “will ensure that homeowners and others who have suffered damage to their property are not then battered by the unscrupulous acts of ‘storm vultures.'”...
May 15 2011 // About $4.2 million is heading to Arkansas to help with housing and other needs following recent flooding, state and federal emergency management officials said.Housing assistance is provided to individuals, families and...
May 13 2011 // North Dakota officials praised President Barack Obama’ disaster declaration that will help the state recover the costs of combatting and cleaning up after widespread spring flooding.The declaration makes federal...
May 13 2011 // Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not given specific time for opening the Morganza Spillway on the Mississippi River upstream from New Orleans to reduce the possibility of...
May 13 2011 // As flood waters continued rising along the Mississippi River, a House committee yesterday unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to extend the federal flood insurance program for five years and introduce financial...
May 12 2011 // After Iowa’s raging Cedar River filled his home with 13 feet of water and ruined most of his possessions, Justin Van Fleet pleaded for help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get back on his feet.Dead...
May 12 2011 // Marsh has been named a 2010 NFIP Insurance Agency of the Year by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Patrice Collingwood, practice leader for Marsh’s Flood Service...
May 12 2011 // The Mississippi River took aim at one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the U.S. Wednesday, leaving some low-lying Memphis neighborhoods inundated, but the city’s high levees protected much of the rest.In...