Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Vital to Alabama Coast Long-Term Plan, Says Commission
Dec 21 2010 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
Fact or Fiction? Insurance Tidbits of Known and Little-Known Information
Dec 20 2010 // Have you ever wondered what big events helped shape regulation of the current U.S. insurance industry? Or if drivers of certain cars have more risk? What about the most attractive insurance job in the industry? These are...
Aon Benfield Releases Annual Cat Report; Insured Losses at $38 Billion
Dec 17 2010 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corporation, has released its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide...
Droughts, Floods, Snow and Cold Hit Global Commodities
Dec 15 2010 // Droughts and deluges in Australia, snow in Europe and cold snaps in the United States are pushing up prices of a range of commodities from sugar to heating oil and soybeans. Australia typically ranks as second in the...
Coalition Calls for $60M for Iowa Flood Prevention
Dec 10 2010 // A coalition of lawmakers, local officials, farmers and business people are calling on Iowa to invest $60 million to prevent flood damage and improve water quality in Iowa’s Cedar River Basin. The Cedar River...
Calif. Assemblyman Villines to Serve on Flood Protection Board
Dec 9 2010 // Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed former Assembly minority leader Michael Villines to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board Villines lost a bid for state insurance commissioner last month. The new...
Aon Benfield Cat Report for November Highlights Cold and Floods
Dec 6 2010 // In its latest monthly assessment of the world’s catastrophes for November Aon Benfield highlights the first winter weather event of the season across Europe with “notable affects.” the report, published...
Nashville Music Industry Back on Track After Floods
Dec 5 2010 // In a white clapboard house on a quiet street in Berry Hill, a six-month marathon effort to save dozens of flood-damaged musical instruments remains a daily labor of love with the goal of salvaging Nashville’s...
It Figures
Dec 5 2010 // $30 Million A Harris County, Texas, jury rendered a $30 million verdict against the Houston-based owner of SunMart convenience stores for defrauding gasoline purchasers, according to the Texas Attorney General’s...
Talk About the Weather
Dec 5 2010 // Floods, Windstorms, Droughts, Heat Waves and Wildfires There was a time in the not-so-distant past when events such as these would have been considered somewhat unusual in Europe. But these days, extreme weather events are...
Report: Flood of Problems Led to Iowa’s Lake Delhi Dam Breach
Dec 3 2010 // Several problems, including design flaws, likely led to the breach of an eastern Iowa dam last summer that decimated a nine-mile long lake, a panel of independent engineers said. The findings identified design and...
New Mexico Town Could Be Liable for Residents’ Flood Damage
Dec 2 2010 // More than a dozen Farmington, N.M., residents and businesses have put the city on notice that they want reimbursement for damages caused by flooding in August. Some 14 claims have been filed, meeting a 90-day deadline to...
Tennessee Gets $7 Million for Flooded Home Buyouts
Dec 1 2010 // U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will provide more than $7 million to Davidson County for home buyouts. The buyout program will be coordinated by the local...
Arizona County and FEMA Try to Fix Flood Map Errors
Nov 30 2010 // Arizona’s Mohave County Flood Control District is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to fix errors the county found in flood insurance maps. The district has been working with FEMA since 2004 to...
Illinois Counties Sue FEMA Over Flood Maps
Nov 16 2010 // State’s Attorneys of Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties in Illinois and a host of other impacted parties have filed suit in federal court against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its director...
Louisiana Still Owes Most of Judgement in 1983 Flood
Nov 16 2010 // Bob McBride Jr. was 18 when he pushed a flat-bottomed boat holding his family and neighbors through chest-high water to safety in Tangipahoa Parish. Nearly 30 years later, he and hundreds of others still are waiting for...
Nashville’s Music Industry Getting Back on Track After Flood
Nov 15 2010 // In a white clapboard house on a quiet street in Berry Hill, a six-month marathon effort to save dozens of flood-damaged musical instruments remains a daily labor of love with the goal of salvaging Nashville’s...
Myrtle Beach Suing Hotels for Risking City’s Flood Insurance Coverage
Nov 10 2010 // The city of Myrtle Beach is suing 11 hotels to make them remove their swimming pool enclosures. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported the federal suit filed last week contends the enclosures violate federal rules, risking...
Flood Buyouts May Alter North Dakota Neighborhoods
Nov 8 2010 // Kolbjorn and Solvi Rommesmo moved to the Heritage Hills subdivision along the Red River south of Fargo, N.D., because it was peaceful and close to nature. Recently, it became even more peaceful, as their neighbors left,...
Iowa to Spend $10M on Flood Mitigation
Nov 3 2010 // Iowa officials say they’ll use about $10 million in federal grant money on projects that they say will manage runoff and mitigate future flood damage. Iowa received an $84.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of...
