Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
President Obama Signs 1-Year Flood Insurance Bill
Oct 1 2010 // It’s official: the federal flood insurance program will be around for at least one more year. President Obama yesterday signed into law S. 3814, the bill that will extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
Munich Re Highlights Climate Change Link to Extreme Weather Events
Sep 28 2010 // A bulletin from Munich Re underlines the “exceptionally high” incidence of “weather-related natural catastrophe losses in the first nine months of 2010,” both in “number and scale.” The...
AIR Estimates Mexico Insured Losses from Karl at $102-$206 Million
Sep 24 2010 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Hurricane Karl, which made its second landfall in Mexico last Friday as a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale, has caused several rivers and canals to...
House Joins Senate in Extending Flood Insurance for 1 Year
Sep 24 2010 // The House of Representatives joined the Senate yesterday in approving a one-year reauthorization of the nation’s flood insurance program. The measure, S. 3814, will extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
House Expected to Go Along with 1 Year Flood Insurance Extension
Sep 23 2010 // Congress is on track to temporarily extend within days a troubled program that insures millions of U.S. homes and businesses against floods, with another push for a broad overhaul looking likely next year. The Senate on...
Eligibility for Preferred Risk Flood Insurance Pricing to Be Extended
Sep 23 2010 // Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been rezoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low-to-moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa....
Senate Extends Flood Insurance for 1 Year; Measure Goes to House
Sep 22 2010 // The U.S. Senate last night passed by unanimous consent a measure extending the National Flood Insurance Program for one year until Sept. 30, 2011. The Senate one-year reauthorization must now pass the House of...
Iowa State Univ. Flood Damage Estimated at Up to $50M
Sep 21 2010 // Flooding that struck Iowa State University in August caused up to $50 million in damage and other costs, but the school started fall classes on time and won’t have to replace any of the major campus facilities that...
Fargo-Moorhead Red River Diversion Plan Delayed
Sep 21 2010 // The Army Corps of Engineers said that a diversion plan for the Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead area will be delayed because it needs to study the project more. The agency said the move is necessary because the effects...
Fewer Properties Expected in Flood Plain With South Dakota Project
Sep 20 2010 // A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from Sioux Falls, S.D.’s flood plain, a city official said. Once the flood-control measures are in...
Gulf Hurricane Insurance Bill Unlikely to Pass, Again
Sep 17 2010 // In Pascagoula, Miss., on the Gulf Coast, agent Laverne Nelson has to get windstorm coverage for her personal property from the state wind pool. That is because in April her property insurer, MetLife, dropped her wind...
FEMA Delays Flood Map Rollout in SW Illinois
Sep 17 2010 // Property owners in southwestern Illinois who worry that new government floodplain maps will force them to buy expensive flood insurance are getting another break. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it will delay...
Nashville Mall Sues for $150 Million in Flood Claims
Sep 17 2010 // The Opry Mills mall, closed since early May because of flooding, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 17 insurance companies seeking at least $150 million in claims. The mall, on the site of the old Opryland USA theme park,...
Hermine Surprises Texas, Oklahoma with Extensive Flooding
Sep 9 2010 // Tropical Storm Hermine, which swept through Texas on Sept. 7 and into Oklahoma on Sept. 8, surprised forecasters by retaining tropical storm strength long after it was expected to decline. The storm resulted in extensive...
Climate Change May Add to Natural Disaster Death Tolls
Sep 8 2010 // Natural disasters are tending to kill fewer people but climate change may add to the toll by unleashing more extreme weather and causing after-effects such as disease and malnutrition, experts say. Better warnings of...
Marmarth, N.D., Dike Decertified by Feds
Sep 8 2010 // Federal officials have decertified a dike that for half a century has protected the southwest North Dakota town of Marmarth from flooding by the Little Missouri River. That means Marmarth will be mapped as a flood plain,...
Tropical Storm Hermine Slams into Northeastern Mexico
Sep 7 2010 // Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into northeastern Mexico near the Texas border Monday, dumping heavy rain on a region still recovering from Hurricane Alex’s visit in June. Hermine, the eighth named storm of the...
Flood Report for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Calls for Better Protection System
Sep 7 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft report that calls for a better, if limited, flood-protection system in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Cedar River swamped the city in 2008, covering 10 square miles. The...
New South Dakota Flood-Control Project to Protect Properties
Sep 7 2010 // A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from Sioux Falls’ flood plain, a city official said. Once the flood-control measures are in place,...
Aon Monthly Cat Recap Highlights Asia Floods, Atlantic Storms
Sep 3 2010 // Aon Benfield’s latest release of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an analysis of global natural perils in August, reports the month was “dominated by historic floods in Pakistan destroying over 1.25...
