All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 29 2007 // In response to the severe thunderstorms that have resulted in flooding in the Chicago area, the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is offering its homeowners insurance customers two services to help reduce damage to their...
Aug 29 2007 // Swiss Re announced that a presentation at its second Nordic Risk & Insurance Summit (NORIS), “will show how winter storms Anatol, Gudrun and Per are harbingers of a more stormy future in Scandinavia, leading to...
Aug 24 2007 // Thunderstorms raced through an already waterlogged northern Illinois, leaving people who live near swollen rivers and streams warily watching rising water levels on Thursday.The storm, which included lightning and winds...
Aug 24 2007 // More than 1,000 people were flooded out of their homes after heavy rain that swamped communities across the American Midwest sent Ohio’s rivers spilling over their banks, the governor said. The storm’s death...
Aug 23 2007 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson issued a warning to consumers of the potential for home repair scams following the state’s recent severe weather.“The wind and rain carried with them enormous...
Aug 23 2007 // Widespread flooding continued this week across northern and central Iowa as thunderstorms and strong winds destroyed buildings, cut off power and left roads and homes underwater.Northern Iowa, already flooded from storms...
Aug 20 2007 // A violent storm that swept through Pittsburgh last week incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to the city’s Carnegie Science Center, a spokesman for the center said.Officials are still assessing...
Aug 16 2007 // Tropical Storms Erin and Dean should serve as a wake-up call to anyone living along the Texas coast that hurricanes may not be too far away.“There is no better time than now to prepare evacuation plans and gather...
Aug 15 2007 // North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven is asking President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for Cass and Steele counties to help them recover from July 15 storms.Hoeven said in a statement on Monday that preliminary assessments...
Aug 8 2007 // Noted hurricane researcher William Gray from Colorado State University has lowered his 2007 forecast slightly, citing cooler water in the Pacific and more atmospheric dust from Africa in predicting 15 named storms and...
Jul 16 2007 // Firefighters tried to contain several dozen lightning-caused fires in Washington state on Saturday, as more thunderstorms swept through the region.Close to 2,700 lightning strikes were reported in Washington and Oregon on...
Jul 13 2007 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) in early June submitted a proposal to the Texas Department of Insurance for the purchase of $1.5 billion in reinsurance under a three-tiered program. On July 11, Texas...
Jul 11 2007 // A severe thunderstorm damaged alfalfa, potato and strawberry crops in southern Oregon.Several alfalfa fields in Malin, where the crop had been more than 4 feet tall, were sheered, as though cut by mowers, the (Klamath...
Jul 10 2007 // The first half of 2007 has been one to forget for many Kansans as blizzards, deadly tornadoes and now flooding have caused millions of dollars in damage, disrupted lives and put a dent in the state’s economy.Of the...
Jul 9 2007 // Meteorologists are reviewing radar data and videotapes to determine if a tornado tore off part of a restaurant roof during an intense weekend storm in Port Orange, Fla.. No one was hurt when the storm ripped off part of...
Jul 6 2007 // A federal appeals court has set Aug. 6 as the date to hear arguments on whether Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. should be forced to cover storm surge damage to a Mississippi’s couple’s home from Hurricane...
Jul 2 2007 // Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined governors from Mississippi and Alabama in appealing for Gulf Coast residents to get prepared for the height of hurricane season.Some 400 delegates to the three-day...
Jun 28 2007 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials received grant applications from nearly 16,000 New Jerseyans whose homes were flooded in April.Monday. June 25, was the deadline to apply. FEMA approved nearly $17 million in...
Jun 27 2007 // A preliminary assessment of storm damage to public structures in Montana’s Valley and Musselshell counties and on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation came to about $226,600, which is not enough to qualify for federal...
Jun 21 2007 // The Met Office, the UK’s official weather forecasting center, (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk.) has forecast 10 tropical storms in the North Atlantic during the July to November period, with a 70 percent chance of there...