Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Local Conn. Businesses Are Told to Plan Ahead, Prepare for Next Big Storm
Sep 3 2015 // A Category 3 hurricane with forces not seen in Eastern Connecticut for nearly 100 years barrels into the mouth of the Connecticut River. Roads are blocked by downed trees and utility lines. Power is expected to be out for...
Homes, Vehicles Flooded in Sioux Falls
Aug 31 2015 // More than half a foot of rain fell in parts of Sioux Falls, S.D., leading to flash flooding that inundated basements, stranded dozens of motorists and cut electricity to thousands of homes. Mayor Mike Huether said...
Louisiana’s Bayou Chene to Get Permanent Flood Control Structure
Aug 27 2015 // Funds from the settlement over BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 will be used to construct a permanent flood control structure in Bayou Chene. The Courier reports the structure will protect St. Mary and several...
Plagued by Drought, California Prepares For El Niño Storms
Aug 27 2015 // While drought-plagued California is eager for rain, the forecast of a potentially Godzilla-like El Niño event has communities clearing out debris basins, urging residents to stock up on emergency supplies and even talking...
10 Years Post-Katrina New Orleans Rises but Gaps Remain
Aug 25 2015 // As people search for words to describe New Orleans’ recovery a decade after Hurricane Katrina, they sometimes use words verging on the Biblical — an economic and cultural resurrection, a rising from the...
New FEMA Maps for Central Texas Expand Flood Plains
Aug 24 2015 // Hundreds of Central Texas residents could be forced to buy flood insurance or face stricter building regulations for new structures nearly three months after deadly flooding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has...
4 Years After Irene, Long-Term Rebuilding Projects Nearing End in Vermont
Aug 24 2015 // The first new building at the still under-reconstruction Vermont State office complex in Waterbury is now occupied by state employees and more are due back before the end of the year. Down Main Street, a new town office...
8 Ways Katrina Changed Commercial Property Insurance
Aug 21 2015 // Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans 10 years ago, is responsible for a number of changes in the commercial property insurance market. According to Rick Miller, U.S. property practice leader at Aon Risk...
Beyond Katrina: Lessons in Mitigation, Insurance and Community
Aug 21 2015 // Among the lessons to be learned from Hurricane Katrina are that communities and all stakeholders should prioritize flooding as the greatest risk, devote more resources to preventive measures rather than post-event disaster...
Florida Insurance Chief Calls on NFIP to Hand Over Its Data
Aug 20 2015 // In his ongoing efforts to foster a competitive private flood insurance market in Florida, state Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, recently requested help from the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation to obtain...
10 Years After Katrina, Coastal Cities Face Greater Flood Risk: RMS
Aug 19 2015 // A decade after Hurricane Katrina caused $41 billion in property/casualty insurance losses, the most expensive catastrophe for the global insurance industry, rising sea levels are driving up expected economic and insurance...
Long, Bruce Join Cunningham Lindsey in Dallas
Aug 18 2015 // Dallas-based global loss adjusting and risk management services company Cunningham Lindsey has added Denise Long as vice president of Catastrophe Operations and Michael Bruce as director of Flood Operations. Long will...
Florida Commissioner McCarty Says NFIP Rates May Be Unfairly Discriminatory
Aug 18 2015 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said on Aug. 14 that the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) rates for Florida may be “unfairly discriminatory” and that his office will ask for the...
Hurricane Katrina and the Evolution of Risk Management
Aug 17 2015 // Nearly 10 years ago, wind and storm surges as a result of Hurricane Katrina caused $41 billion in insured losses and $108 billion in total economic losses in the United States. Many of the lawsuits filed as a result of the...
Utah City’s Basements Flood After Large Reservoir Leak
Aug 12 2015 // Residents of Ogden, Utah have been facing flooded basements since June, but the area-irrigation water supplier may have found the problem: a leak in a nearby reservoir. The Standard-Examiner reported that the general...
FEMA Makes 1st New Payments to Sandy Flood Claimants After Review
Aug 11 2015 // The federal government has started making new payments to victims of Superstorm Sandy after a review found that some policyholders were not paid what they were due from the National Flood Insurance Program. The Federal...
Pennsylvania’s Mill Creek Flood of 1915 Re-Examined
Aug 11 2015 // Erie, Pennsylvania, has had some tragic days, but Aug. 3, 1915, ranks at the top. At 8:45 p.m. that Tuesday, a wall of water tore through the city at 25 mph, lifting houses from their foundations, ripping pavement from...
Price Tag from Spring Severe Weather Adding Up in Oklahoma
Aug 11 2015 // The rain has stopped falling and the triple-digit heat of an Oklahoma summer has finally arrived, but state emergency managers are still adding up the price tag for repairing roads, bridges and other public infrastructure...
Typhoon Soudelor Hits Taiwan and China with Rains, Floods & Wind: AIR Report
Aug 11 2015 // A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, states: “Typhoon Soudelor has weakened over eastern China after making landfalls in Saipan, Taiwan, and China. The storm made landfall in Taiwan at 21:00 UTC on...
Missouri Gets Federal Disaster Declaration for Severe Storms, Floods
Aug 10 2015 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says President Barack Obama has approved a request for a major disaster declaration after repeated flash flooding and severe storms from May 15 to July 27. Nixon announced the disaster declaration...
