All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is urging the insurance and banking companies it regulates, as well as New Jersey residents, to prepare now for hurricane season, which officially began June 1.All Garden...
Jun 8 2018 // Four separate severe weather outbreaks swept across the United States during the month of May, which led to extensive hail, wind damage and flash flooding, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe...
Jun 7 2018 // Break out the galoshes.The projected increase in high tide flooding in 2018 may be as much as 60 percent higher across U.S. coastlines compared to typical flooding about 20 years ago, according to scientists at the...
Jun 7 2018 // In Boston’s booming Seaport District, General Electric is building its new world headquarters, Amazon is bringing in thousands of new workers, and Reebok’s red delta symbol sits atop the new office it opened...
Jun 7 2018 // In a blow to the owner of Opry Mills Mall, the Tennessee Supreme Court has let stand a lower court’s ruling that stripped $150 million of insurance coverage for the 2010 flood.The state’s highest court...
Jun 6 2018 // A woman whose body was found 11 days after she made a frantic cellphone call from a Houston hotel elevator as floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey rushed in exited the elevator in the basement only to struggle against a...
Jun 6 2018 // Cities in the U.S. and Canada stand to lose $92.96 billion per year to risks like market crash, cyber attack and flood, an index from Lloyd’s released today shows.Lloyd’s newly issued City Risk Index, which...
Jun 5 2018 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has declared a state of emergency in eight counties for flooding from heavy rains.The governor’s office said in a news release that some emergency evacuations were underway Sunday...
Jun 4 2018 // Farmers in western North Carolina are adding up their losses after the heavy rains from Subtropical Storm Alberto.Hendersonville farmer Randy Edmundson thinks about 70 of his 110 acres (44 hectares) are under water after...
Jun 4 2018 // In an empty lot where Vincent Shields’ Houston home once stood, he points out properties whose owners were driven out after Hurricane Harvey inundated the region last summer.“On this street there’s...
Jun 4 2018 // A jury has ordered a northern Indiana city to pay a couple more than $102,000 for flood damage their home suffered nearly a decade ago.Richard and Janet Brown sued the city of Valparaiso after 18 inches of floodwater...
Jun 1 2018 // Officials in the Texas county hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey announced they will seek the public’s input before finalizing a list of critical flood-control projects voters will be asked to approve during an...
Jun 1 2018 // Searchers scouring a river alongside an historic Maryland town ripped apart by flash flooding found the body of a man last seen being swept away by the raging waters as it gutted shops and pushed parked cars into swollen...
Jun 1 2018 // The 2018 hurricane season is officially underway, even as the dust continues to settle on the 2017 hurricane season — one of the costliest hurricane years on record — that brought devastation to Florida from Hurricane...
May 31 2018 // The deadly flash flood that devastated a Maryland town’s historic center in July 2016 was dubbed a 1-in-1000 year event. Less than two years later, an even more treacherous flood ravaged the town, gutting shops and...
May 30 2018 // The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, working in collaboration with area residents, the Clear Lake City Water Authority, or CLCWA, and Exploration Green Conservancy, have been collaborating to transform an...
May 29 2018 // Dr. Lauren Morris’s dental office is in sight of one of the pumping stations designed to push water out of New Orleans. But despite that proximity, the roughly year-old business has already flooded. Now with the June...
May 29 2018 // A jury has ordered a northern Indiana city to pay a couple more than $102,000 for flood damage their home suffered nearly a decade ago.Richard and Janet Brown sued the city of Valparaiso after 18 inches of floodwater...
May 29 2018 // Roaring flash floods struck a Maryland city Sunday that had been wracked by similar devastation two years ago, its main street turned into a raging river that reached the first floor of some buildings and swept away parked...
May 24 2018 // A western Maryland county hit hard by flooding last week is surveying residents and businesses to get a handle on the extent of the damage. Frederick County announced Saturday that the survey will help determine whether...