Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Regulators Urge Insurers to Extend Flood Coverage
Jul 11 2011 // Missouri regulators are asking insurance companies to go beyond normal procedures to cover furniture, electronics and other belongings that must be moved because of flooding. The state insurance department says policies...
Minot, N.D., Residents Trickle Back to Flooded Homes
Jul 8 2011 // Dozens of Minot, N.D., residents returned to their waterlogged homes on July 6 for the first time since the Souris River breached its banks and inundated much of the city last month, where some cried, overwhelmed by the...
Iowa Governor Proposes Downstream Missouri River Group
Jul 8 2011 // Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has urged governors in three states to consider pulling out of a Missouri River association because of the Army Corps of Engineers’ long-term management of the river and what he believes is a...
Pennsylvania Flood Damage Could Top $1M
Jul 8 2011 // As cleanup efforts in northeastern Pennsylvania continued, state and federal officials crunched numbers to get a dollar amount on damages from flash flooding that damaged homes and washed out bridges and roads. Damages...
West Virginia Receives Funds to Demolish Flood-Prone Homes
Jul 8 2011 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $1.2 million to West Virginia’s Wayne County to acquire and tear down flood-prone homes. Rep. Nick Rahall announced the hazard mitigation grant. The West Virginia...
Aon Benfield Cat Recap Highlights China Floods; Quakes, Wildfires
Jul 7 2011 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp., has released the latest edition of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during...
Kansas Governor: Missouri River Floods Should Prompt Review of Corps
Jul 7 2011 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is questioning whether flood control is a high enough priority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as it oversees the Missouri River system. Brownback on July 6 called for the creation of a...
FEMA to Continue Insurance Sales in Midwest Amid Flooding
Jul 7 2011 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says residents along the Missouri River should buy flood insurance now even though new policies likely won’t cover losses from the floods that began in June. South Dakota Sen....
With Wildfires Contained, Arizona Shifts to Thwarting Summer Floods
Jul 7 2011 // The biggest forest fire in Arizona history is all but contained, and authorities are shifting their focus to preventing massive flood damage as summer storms begin to hit. The specialized firefighting management teams that...
Expected Summer Floods Could Set Record
Jul 7 2011 // With rivers still running above flood stage and soils saturated, forecasters predicted Wednesday this summer flooding season could rival the worst in U.S. history. In the “Great Flood of 1993,” record-breaking...
Demolition of Flooded Homes on Iowa Island Begins
Jul 7 2011 // Contractors have started tearing down homes damaged in 2008 by flooding on San Souci Island in Waterloo, Iowa. Twenty houses in the island were turned over to the city in a $4 million buyout program authorized by the...
New Jersey to Get Almost $50M for Flood Protection
Jul 6 2011 // New Jersey will be getting almost $50 million in federal funds to help bolster the state’s long-term flood protections. Emergency Management authorities announced Tuesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Levee in Flood-Prone Ohio City Decertified
Jul 6 2011 // The only earthen levee along the troublesome Blanchard River in the northwest Ohio city of Findlay is no longer recognized as viable for flood control. The Courier newspaper reports the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Flooded Missouri River Threatens Tributaries, Downstream Towns
Jul 6 2011 // In a season of flooding by some of the nation’s biggest rivers, it’s streams most Americans have never heard of that could cause some of the worst problems in the Midwest. Hundreds of tributaries that feed the...
Exxon Claims Mont. Oil Spill Damage Limited, Gov. Doubtful
Jul 5 2011 // An oil pipeline that spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into Montana’s Yellowstone River was temporarily shut down in May because of concerns over rising waters, and regulators last year warned Exxon...
Declarations
Jul 4 2011 // A Smaller Zone “We actually have less acreage in the flood zone than before. … We were quite pleased.” —Broussard Mayor Charles Langlinais commented on the impact on his city of a new flood map for...
Declarations
Jul 4 2011 // Shopping Date “We don’t have a specific date set for that at this time.” —Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s press secretary when asked if and when the state planned to restore an insurance department Web...
Missouri River Levee Fails in Southwest Iowa
Jul 1 2011 // A Missouri River levee failed near Percival in southwest Iowa on June 30, the National Weather Service said. The breach, about a mile northwest of the town in Fremont County, had grown to about 200-yards-wide by 9 a.m.,...
South Dakota Senator Seeks Clarification on Flood Insurance
Jun 30 2011 // South Dakota Sen. John Thune has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to clarify how the National Flood Insurance Program applies to the current flooding along the Missouri River. FEMA has determined that the...
Eqecat Set to Release 3 Revised Catastrophe Models
Jun 29 2011 // Catastrophe risk modeler Eqecat has scheduled July 15 as the date to release three significant revisions to its Worldcatenterprise 3.16 platform. The updates cover Eqecat’s North Atlantic hurricane model, its Canada...
