Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Housing Assistance Dollars Heading to Arkansas
May 15 2011 // About $4.2 million is heading to Arkansas to help with housing and other needs following recent flooding, state and federal emergency management officials said. Housing assistance is provided to individuals, families and...
North Dakota Officials Praise Disaster Declaration
May 13 2011 // North Dakota officials praised President Barack Obama’ disaster declaration that will help the state recover the costs of combatting and cleaning up after widespread spring flooding. The declaration makes federal...
Louisiana Governor: We’re Not Waiting for the Corps on Flooding Issues
May 13 2011 // Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not given specific time for opening the Morganza Spillway on the Mississippi River upstream from New Orleans to reduce the possibility of...
House Committee Passes Flood Insurance Extension, Reform Bill
May 13 2011 // As flood waters continued rising along the Mississippi River, a House committee yesterday unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to extend the federal flood insurance program for five years and introduce financial...
FEMA Asking for Return of Disaster Aid
May 12 2011 // After Iowa’s raging Cedar River filled his home with 13 feet of water and ruined most of his possessions, Justin Van Fleet pleaded for help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get back on his feet. Dead...
Marsh Named Flood Insurance Agency of Year
May 12 2011 // Marsh has been named a 2010 NFIP Insurance Agency of the Year by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Patrice Collingwood, practice leader for Marsh’s Flood Service...
Flooded River Taking Aim at Mississippi Delta
May 12 2011 // The Mississippi River took aim at one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the U.S. Wednesday, leaving some low-lying Memphis neighborhoods inundated, but the city’s high levees protected much of the rest. In...
Louisiana Ag Chief Wants Disaster Designation for Spillway Opening
May 11 2011 // Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., is urging the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Risk Management to categorize the opening of the Morganza Spillway as a natural...
Louisiana Town Works to Save Economic Engine From Flood
May 11 2011 // They call it the Vidalia Riverfront — a strip of land between the Mississippi River and the levee, with a park, walking trail, a camp ground, and $75 million worth of buildings that generate 300 jobs for this town of...
Memphis Battles Rising Mississippi River
May 10 2011 // The Mississippi rose toward the highest level ever in the river city of Memphis, flooding pockets of low-lying neighborhoods and forcing more than 1,000 people from their homes, though the water was not threatening the...
Risky Business: Insurance Industry Entering ‘New Era’ of Catastrophes
May 10 2011 // Given the recent flooding, hurricanes and earthquakes, it appears the number of catastrophic events that inflict mass casualties and severe economic losses has increased — so much so that Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan,...
Projection Shows Omaha Flood Could Displace 7,000
May 10 2011 // More than 7,100 people would be displaced and damage could run close to $700 million if the Omaha, Neb., area were to experience a flood of the Papillion Creek Watershed on par with one that soaked much of Ames, Iowa, last...
Help Available in Midwest States Affected by Flooding, Violent Weather
May 9 2011 // Midwest residents who suffered damage from flooding, tornados, and other recent severe weather events may qualify for help from federal and state governments in the wake of official disaster declarations. Southern Illinois...
Lake Flooding Continues to Plague Vermont and New York
May 6 2011 // At one end of the Burlington, Vermont neighborhood, 16-year-old Nathan Shappy was filling sandbags to put around his family’s house. Nearby, Maria Spadanuda waded through 8-inch deep floodwaters surrounding her home,...
Insurers Fight Over Flood Policies Dropped by State Farm
May 6 2011 // Major U.S. insurers jostled on Capitol Hill this week over control of 800,000 former State Farm flood insurance policies as lawmakers tried to advance reform of the nation’s flood insurance system. The conflict began...
Louisiana Prepares for Higher Water Levels Than Expected
May 5 2011 // Emergency officials in Louisiana are preparing for even higher Mississippi River water levels than had previously been estimated, after additional rain fell in the lower Ohio River Valley, according to Gov. Bobby...
Missouri Farmers Sue Over Levee Breach; Feds Say Help Available
May 5 2011 // The dramatic, late-night demolition of a huge earthen levee sent chocolate-colored floodwaters pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland on May 3, easing the threat to a tiny Illinois town being menaced by the...
Insurers Fight Over Flood Insurance Policies Dropped by State Farm
May 5 2011 // Major U.S. insurers jostled on Capitol Hill this week over control of 800,000 former State Farm flood insurance policies as lawmakers tried to advance reform of the nation’s flood insurance system. The conflict began...
Mayor Orders Flood-Threatened Illinois City Evacuated
May 2 2011 // Authorities in a southern Illinois city menaced by two dangerously swollen rivers said on May 1 that most of the city’s remaining residents have heeded a mandatory evacuation order, prompted by river water seeping up...
Spring Flooding Renews Concerns over National Flood Insurance Program Expiration
May 2 2011 // For agents across much of the Northeast, the last several months have brought spates of spring flooding — and has served as a reminder for what is poised to become a political battle this fall over frequent lapses and...
