All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2009 // The 2008 hurricane season was the sixth most active tropical storm season recorded since data collection began in 1851. Six storms made U.S. landfall in 2008. They were hurricanes Dolly, Gustav and Ike and tropical storms...
Apr 6 2009 // As this issue of Insurance Journal South Central Edition went to press, Oklahoma officials were set to award $250 million in contracts for much needed road and bridge improvements in that state. The money is part of the...
Apr 3 2009 // The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, City Council has voted to buy $25 million of flood insurance.The coverage, through the National Flood Insurance Program, would pay to clean up any buildings damaged by last summer’s flood if...
Apr 3 2009 // Although the Red River in Fargo, N.D., experienced the peak of the flood wave on March 27 and 28, 2009, there is still a large amount of flooding along the river as the flood wave makes its way north, the U.S. Geological...
Apr 3 2009 // North Dakota’s spring flooding problems have focused new attention on a proposed $44 million state disaster fund that a Fargo lawmaker wants to establish.“Setting the money aside is more critical than...
Mar 31 2009 // Just as the Red River began retreating from Fargo, N.D.’s hastily fortified levees, the city’s tired residents stared down a winter storm March 30 that is expected to bring than a foot of snow and wind-whipped...
Mar 31 2009 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour surveyed tornado damage in Simpson County yesterday.Nearly 30 people were injured and dozens of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed Thursday when a twister ripped through the town...
Mar 31 2009 // The failure of a century old earthen canal in northern Nevada that sent flood waters into hundreds of homes on a frigid night in January 2008 was only the beginning of a nightmare for a rural irrigation district.The flood...
Mar 31 2009 // As North Dakota’s Red River crept within view of their backyard this past week, Denette and Billy Narum had an extra incentive to pray their sandbags held. Like most people in the path of potential floods, they have...
Mar 30 2009 // By James MacPherson and Carson WalkerThe bloated Red River briefly breached a dike in Fargo, N.D. early on March 29, pouring water into a school campus and the mayor called it a “wakeup call” for a city that...
Mar 27 2009 // The North Dakota Insurance Department’s office at 1701 South 12th Street is closed until further notice due to flooding. Several staff members will be working out of the capitol tower office. For more information,...
Mar 27 2009 // The town of Westport, S.D., north of Aberdeen is being flooded by the Elm River and South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed an emergency declaration allowing the use of state resources to help towns and cities respond to...
Mar 27 2009 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has Senate Bill 5417, an act relating to flood insurance coverage.According to the law, “every insurer issuing a homeowner, condominium unit owner, residential tenant and residential...
Mar 27 2009 // The National Weather Service says the Red River reached record stage in Fargo, N.D., overnight and one of the levees was breeched. The river had risen to 40.18 feet early on March 27, breaking a 112-year-old record on its...
Mar 27 2009 // Conservation officials announced that thanks to the federal stimulus bill, Oklahoma is in line for $25 million to rehabilitate high-hazard earthen dams that provide flood protection across the state.They said Oklahoma is...
Mar 26 2009 // President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding.North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven says the move means the federal government will pay 75 percent of state and local...
Mar 24 2009 // Flooding in the upper Midwest, which could rival the high water levels experienced in 2006 and possibly 1997, and continued drought in the South and West are among the warnings contained in the national outlook for this...
Mar 23 2009 // Keeping Homes Afloat“PCI applauds Congress for acting to keep the National Flood Insurance Program in place. Allowing the program to expire would have very negative consequences for policyholders and also for the...
Mar 23 2009 // Red River Floods“The magnitude of the expected flooding has not been seen in several years.” The National Weather Service as North Dakotans prepared for spring flooding along the Rd River Basin. Officials in...
Mar 23 2009 // Congress passed a measure extending the National Flood Insurance Program through Sept. 30, 2009, under the omnibus appropriations bill.The NFIP extension was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on March 6, but Congress passed a...