Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
As River Recedes from Lee, Pennsylvanians Return to Wilkes-Barre Homes
Sep 11 2011 // Tens of thousands of evacuated Pennsylvania residents were allowed to return home starting Saturday as rivers swollen by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee receded across Pennsylvania after flooding that was the worst in...
North Carolina County to Buy Flood-Damaged Homes
Sep 9 2011 // Mecklenburg County in North Carolina plans to buy more than a dozen homes damaged by flooding last month. County commissioners saidthey plan to spend up to $2 million as part of an effort to remove homes located in...
Officials: Louisiana Home-Raisings Prevented Flooding from TS Lee
Sep 8 2011 // Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana officials say an aggressive effort by parish government to use federal grant programs for elevation of homes is a likely reason why so few homes flooded in Terrebonne as a result of Tropical...
Senate Committee Passes Federal Flood Insurance Reform Legislation
Sep 8 2011 // As many property owners continue to recover from hurricane and tropical storms Irene and Lee and new storms form offshore, the U.S. Senate is taking steps to renew the federal flood insurance program. Today, the Senate...
AIR Estimates Talas Insured Losses between $150 -$600 Million
Sep 8 2011 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s initial estimates for insured losses from Tropical Storm Talas are between JPY 12 billion ($150 million) and JPY 46 billion ($600 million). Talas is the season’s 12th...
North Carolina County Recovers From Trio of Disasters
Sep 7 2011 // Driving along the back roads of Bertie County, it’s hard sometimes to tell one disaster’s damage from another. That huge old tree, its limbs chopped and stacked after falling across a road, was definitely...
UPDATE: Killer Typhoon Talas Brings More Misery to Japan
Sep 7 2011 // Japan braced for more heavy rain and floods Monday as the death toll from the worst typhoon to hit the country in seven years climbed to 34. Rescuers searched for 55 others who remained missing, and tens of thousands of...
After Drenching New Orleans, Tropical Storm Lee Threatens Southeast
Sep 5 2011 // After testing New Orleans’ flood defenses over the weekend, Tropical Storm Lee moved northeast Monday after weakening to a tropical depression, and threatened to bring heavy rains and flooding to a large section of...
Irene’s Legacy
Sep 5 2011 // In some towns, Hurricane Irene turned out to be less destructive than initially feared, although that is small consolation to those along the Eastern Seaboard who did feel her force, lost loved ones, were flooded out of...
Stability in the Affluent Market Shows Promise for Brokers, Insurers
Sep 5 2011 // The high net worth insurance market remains a stable market for agents and the insurers specializing in this exclusive class. “From a market opportunity perspective we are seeing a market that continues to be fairly...
Irene’s Legacy
Sep 5 2011 // In some towns, Hurricane Irene turned out to be less destructive than initially feared, although that is small consolation to those along the Eastern Seaboard who did feel her force, lost loved ones or suffered property...
Irene’s Legacy
Sep 5 2011 // In some towns, Hurricane Irene turned out to be less destructive than initially feared, although that is small consolation to those along the Eastern Seaboard who did feel her force, lost loved ones or suffered property...
Irene’s Legacy
Sep 5 2011 // In some towns, Hurricane Irene turned out to be less destructive than initially feared, although that is small consolation to those along the Eastern Seaboard who did feel her force, lost loved ones, were flooded out of...
Irene’s Legacy
Sep 5 2011 // In some towns, Hurricane Irene turned out to be less destructive than initially feared, although that is small consolation to those along the Eastern Seaboard who did feel her force, lost loved ones or suffered property...
Typhoon Talas Heading for Japan
Sep 2 2011 // A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, notes that Typhoon Talas, which formed in the western Pacific on the 25th of August, is the 12th named storm of the 2011, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency...
Chronic Flooding in Iowa Town Forcing Residents Out
Sep 2 2011 // The southwest Iowa town of Hamburg may lose many of its roughly 1,100 residents after the summer-long flood along the Missouri River. Floodwaters have limited access to the town since June, and earlier this month ConAgra...
Update: Irene State by State Estimates
Sep 2 2011 // Catastrophe modeling company Eqecat, whose software is used by insurers to predict exposure to disasters, estimated the economic losses in the United States from Hurricane Irene at more than $10 billion. Irene was the 10th...
Neighbors Help Neighbors in Flood-scoured New York Town
Sep 2 2011 // Friends, family, and total strangers are grabbing shovels, mops and buckets to help shopkeepers clear debris left by flooding and salvage whatever they can in mountain villages ravaged by Irene’s deluge in upstate...
Customer Satisfaction with Home Insurers Improves, Says J.D. Powers
Sep 1 2011 // Customer satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies this year is up from 2010, but still remains below levels achieved in 2009. Overall satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies averages 769 in...
Vermont, New Jersey, Upstate New York Still Underwater from Irene
Sep 1 2011 // Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devastated by Hurricane Irene but many communities were still under water Wednesday as relief workers battled cut-off roads and raging rivers to...
