Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Irene Insured Losses in U.S. at $3-$6 Billion; P/C Pricing Unlikely to Turn
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene caused $3 billion to $6 billion in insured losses, catastrophe modeling company AIR Worldwide said Monday, affirming the insurance industry’s suspicion the impact was not as bad as feared. In the days...
6 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward Still Bleak
Aug 29 2011 // In New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now. St. Claude...
New England Coast Weathers Irene; Inland Flooding, Power Outages Major Concerns
Aug 29 2011 // As Tropical Storm Irene churned up the eastern seaboard it left many of New England’s coastal states relatively unscathed, while inflicting some of the worst damage on landlocked Vermont, where severe flooding is now...
Irene Insured Losses Significant But Figures Still Uncertain
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene is expected to have caused substantial property losses, though figures are still hard to come by because of uncertainty about wind damage, catastrophe modeling company Eqecat said Monday. The storm may have...
Vermont Battles Extensive Flooding Following Irene
Aug 29 2011 // Vermont residents battled epic flooding Monday after the remnants of Hurricane Irene set off the state’s worst flooding in nearly 40 years, washing out roads and knocking out power. At least one person was killed...
New Jersey Suffers Widespread Damage from Irene
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene swept along the New Jersey shore early Sunday, knocking down trees, leaving thousands of people without electrical power and causing flooding. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cautioned residents and...
AIR Estimates Irene Insured Caribbean Losses at $500 Million to $1.1 Billion
Aug 29 2011 // AIR Worldwide has estimated that insured losses in the Caribbean from Hurricane Irene will be between $500 million and $1.1 billion. AIR said it “expects the Bahamas will account for more than 60 percent of the...
Irene Floods Northeast; Manhattan Spared Worst
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the northeastern United States, where driving rain and flood tides inundated homes and cut power to...
Irene Damage Assessment Underway; Flood Insurance Losses Could Surge
Aug 28 2011 // Hurricane Irene caused between $200 million and $400 million in insured losses in the Carolinas, catastrophe modeling company EQECAT said Sunday, suggesting the storm may have been far less severe than the insurance...
Irene Causes Extensive Property Damage on Smaller Islands in the Bahamas
Aug 26 2011 // Large and powerful Hurricane Irene roared across the Bahamas archipelago on Wednesday, knocking down trees and destroying homes on a path that officials said posed the greatest threat to the country’s smaller,...
Threat of Irene Exposes New York’s Vulnerability
Aug 25 2011 // In the annals of natural disasters, it doesn’t get much worse than a major hurricane directly striking New York City and Long Island. Hurricane Irene is on a course that will take it up the East Coast from the...
Flood Remapping Underway for Metro Atlanta
Aug 23 2011 // A massive remapping project is under way, re-evaluating the flood plains in counties and municipalities across metro Atlanta and the rest of the state. The joint effort with the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been...
Prosecutors Want Jail for Rhode Island Radio Host for Insurance Fraud
Aug 22 2011 // Federal prosecutors are arguing against a home confinement sentence for a former Rhode Island radio disc jockey who damaged her North Providence house in a $40,000 insurance fraud scheme after last year’s historic...
Illinois Court: Homeowner Suit Against Flood Determination Firm May Proceed
Aug 19 2011 // A flood determination company may be sued by Illinois homeowners for failing to determine the couple’s home was in a flood plain, a state appeals court has found. The Illinois Court of Appeals for the Third District...
Flooding Emergency Declared in Tombstone
Aug 19 2011 // Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has declared a state of emergency in Tombstone because of flooding in the wake of a recent wildfire. The governor’s office says the Monument Fire in southeastern Arizona destroyed vegetation...
Kentucky Officials Mull Buying Flood Victims’ Properties
Aug 16 2011 // Officials in McCracken County are moving forward with a plan to purchase property from flood victims so that the land won’t be built on again. The McCracken County Fiscal Court voted last week to apply to participate...
Pipeline Leaks into Missouri River in Iowa
Aug 15 2011 // A leak in a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners spilled fuel into the Missouri River in Iowa, the company said Monday. The leak was on the Iowa side of Enterprise’s Conway North line...
Official Urges Filing of Flood Insurance Claims
Aug 15 2011 // A federal disaster official says South Dakota homeowners and business owners who have flood insurance and have suffered flood damage should file claims now. Mark Neveau of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which...
Democrats, Republicans Compromise on Federal Flood Insurance
Aug 15 2011 // In a rare compromise, Democrats agreed to let the federal flood insurance program expire in exchange for Republican tax breaks for the wealthy. The Senate voted 74-26 for the bill, which lets the National Flood Insurance...
Mississippi Counties Declared Disasters from River Flooding
Aug 12 2011 // Gov. Haley Barbour said several Mississippi counties that reported agricultural losses will be eligible for federal assistance in the aftermath of the Mississippi River flood. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reviewed...
