Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts Congressmen Request Disaster Help After Floods
Mar 22 2010 // The Massachusetts Congressional delegation has asked President Barack Obama to issue a disaster declaration after last week’s flooding. Ten inches of rain fell in Massachusetts over three days, causing floods that...
Fargo’s Fight Against Flooding Nears Its Climax
Mar 22 2010 // A weeklong fight against flooding neared its climax in Fargo on Sunday, with miles of sandbags and clay dikes expected to hold back the bloated Red River at its crest with room to spare. City officials and residents were...
Lesson Learned: More Buy Flood Insurance in Minnesota After ’09
Mar 18 2010 // When the swollen Red River threatened his house in Moorehead, Minn., last spring, all Mark Baumgardner could do was pack up, leave and hope he wouldn’t lose everything, since didn’t have flood insurance. In the...
Mississippians Told to Expect April Floods
Mar 17 2010 // The Mississippi River is starting its spring climb with forecasters predicting a rise of more than a foot a day beginning at midweek. The result could be another year of flooding in the Vicksburg area. “Right now,...
More Than One-Third of U.S. Facing High Risk of Flooding
Mar 17 2010 // Major flooding has begun and is forecast to continue through spring in parts of the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service. The South and East are also more susceptible to flooding as an El Niño...
Senate Passes Flood Insurance Extension; No House Vote Yet
Mar 17 2010 // The U.S. Senate has passed a measure to extend the federal flood insurance program until Dec. 31, 2010. The Senate-approved extension is a provision in a bill, American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010 (H.R....
As Weather Warms, Property Owners Urged to Buy Flood Insurance
Mar 12 2010 // Having flood insurance will be increasingly important this year as spring rain combines in many parts of the U.S. with the melting of record snowfall, according to the Insurance Information Institute. “Many states on...
House Panels Face Environmental, Insurer Groups Over Catastrophe Bill
Mar 10 2010 // Two House subcommittees have scheduled a joint hearing today on ways to address homeowners insurance costs in disaster-prone communities, an issue that has some environmentalists, taxpayer groups and insurers standing...
Salina, Kan., Considering Appealing New Floodplain Maps
Mar 10 2010 // Salina, Kan., city officials said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new floodplain map is just plain wrong and they will consider appealing the floodplain maps for the south part of town. Most of the...
Rising Rivers Flood Rural Australian Towns
Mar 8 2010 // Floods caused by heavy rains have cut off several townships in Australia’s northeastern Queensland state and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, the state’s premier said Sunday. Premier Anna Bligh...
Minnesota Cities Brace for Spring Floods
Mar 8 2010 // Chances remain high for major spring flooding in some Minnesota cities along rivers as a heavy winter snowpack melts, the National Weather Service said. But city officials remain confident their towns can handle high water...
It Figures
Mar 7 2010 // 14.6% Auto thefts in Michigan in 2008 declined by 14.6 percent compared to 2007. Michigan’s H.E.A.T. (Help Eliminate Auto Thefts) said 2008 statistics — the latest year for which data is available —...
Washington Lawmakers Approve JUA For Flood Insurance
Mar 5 2010 // The Washington State Senate has approved a flood insurance bill that would allow the insurance commissioner to create a market assistance plan and, if necessary, a joint underwriting association if the flood insurance...
Louisiana’s Vitter Wants to Stop Flood Map Updates While Levees Fixed
Mar 3 2010 // U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana wants to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from updating flood maps around communities working to fix levees found to be deficient. Vitter said many areas in Louisiana could...
National Flood Insurance Program Temporarily Restored
Mar 3 2010 // The U.S. Senate last night passed legislation that includes an extension of the federal flood insurance program until March 28. President Obama has signed the measure. The extension means that the National Flood Insurance...
Flood Insurance Program Closed; No Policies Until Senate Votes
Mar 1 2010 // The Senate last week failed to vote on bills to extend several federal programs including jobless benefits, COBRA subsidies, transportation project funding and flood insurance before these programs expired Feb. 28. A...
U.S. Senator Presses Agencies for Information About Illinois Levees
Mar 1 2010 // U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin wants a meeting with two federal agencies to seek information about efforts to certify five levee systems in three southwestern Illinois counties. Durbin and other overseers of the levees in Madison,...
Agents Urged to Tell Insureds of Flood Program Lapse
Mar 1 2010 // Insurance agents with customers waiting to be covered in the federal flood insurance program should tell those customers about the program’s suspension, an insurance expert is advising. As reported by Insurance...
CCRIF, CIMH to Launch Excess Rainfall Model for New Insurance Policy
Feb 25 2010 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) are launching their Regional Rainfall Model today, February 25, at CIMH headquarters in Husbands,...
Montana 100-Year Flood Plain Expanded
Feb 23 2010 // The mayor of Miles City, Mont., said a new federal map nearly doubles the size of the city’s 100-year flood plain and could result in hundreds of residents paying for increased flood insurance. Joe R. Whalen said the...
