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#1 What Flood Insurance Does and Does Not Cover
Jul 10 2025 // Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their...
#2 FEMA Flood Maps Often Miss Flash Flood Risks, Leaving Homeowners Unprepared
Jul 14 2025 // Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can prepare for...
#3 FEMA Removed Several Camp Mystic Buildings From 100-Year Flood Map, Records Show
Jul 14 2025 // Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before...
#4 Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas
Jul 9 2025 // Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are similarly situated in...
#5 Deadliest Flooding in Last 25 Years Came in Areas With Low Flood Insurance Take-Up
Jul 8 2025 // Flooding has caused an average of more than 125 deaths per year and billions of dollars in damage in the United States over the past few decades, according to the National Weather Service. Flash floods are the...
#6 Camp Mystic Leader May Not Have Seen Alert Before Flood, Family Spokesman Says
Jul 17 2025 // The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to...
#7 Texas Department of Insurance Issues Guidance for Insurers Following Deadly Floods
Jul 15 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance shared a bulletin on flooding disaster guidance in light of the deadly floods in the Texas Hill Country. The bulletin lays out expectations for how insurers, agents, contractors, adjusters...
#8 Camp Mystic Deaths After Floods Darken a Cherished Texas Tradition
Jul 22 2025 // Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before becoming First Lady, and...
#9 Heavy Rains and Flash Flooding Inundate Northeast Roads and Neighborhoods
Jul 15 2025 // Heavy rain swept across parts of the U.S. Northeast on Monday night, inundating sections of New York and New Jersey with flash flooding that stranded vehicles in roadways, closed subway lines and led to a declaration of a...
#10 Deadly History of Flooding in ‘Flash Flood Alley’ Along Guadalupe River
Jul 10 2025 // Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The Heart O’ the Hills camp is on the Guadalupe River, where a massive search continues for more...
#11 Geography and Driving Behavior Contribute to High Flood Death Rates in Texas
Jul 15 2025 // Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater into deadly deluges, according to a study...
#12 No Alerts Heard in Deadly Texas Flash Flood as 161 Still Missing
Jul 9 2025 // In the early hours of July 4, the only sound many of the vacationers along the banks of the Guadalupe River would have heard was pounding rain and thunder. They didn’t get any official warning of the rapidly rising...
#13 2 Dead in New Jersey After Floodwaters Carry Away Vehicle During Northeast Downpours
Jul 15 2025 // Two people in New Jersey were killed after their vehicle was swept up in floodwaters during a storm that moved across the U.S. Northeast overnight, authorities said Tuesday. Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, noted the deaths...
#14 Flash Floods Once Again Hit Vermont, Damaging Homes and Roads
Jul 14 2025 // Communities in rural parts of Vermont on Friday woke up once again to damaged homes and washed-out roads due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, making it the third consecutive summer that severe floods have inundated...
#15 Tropical Rainstorm to Bring Flooding to Florida Peninsula and Gulf Coast
Jul 15 2025 // A tropical rainstorm is expected to bring flooding to the Florida Peninsula on Tuesday before making its way across the Gulf Coast and into Louisiana later in the week. The Florida Peninsula, coastal Alabama and...
#16 Texas Agencies Missed Opportunities to Fund Flood Warning System
Jul 10 2025 // Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in...
#17 Central Texas Floods Highlight State’s Risky Profile, Triple-I Analysis Finds
Jul 16 2025 // The catastrophic floods in central Texas on July 4th occurred in an area where fewer than 3% of homeowners have flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, serving as another example of why Texas has one...
#18 Farmers in Texas Face Severe Losses From Floods
Jul 11 2025 // Across a wide swath of Texas, the inundated rivers that ravaged communities also tore through farms and ranches. In the town of Bend, about two hours north of Austin, Boyd Clark waded into rising waters to help one of his...
#19 4 Eastern Kentucky Communities Receive $14.4 Million for Flood Mitigation
Jul 14 2025 // Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced more than $14.4 million to improve water and wastewater infrastructure in four communities across the eastern part of the state that were hit by historic floods in 2022. The cities of...
#20 Questions Linger on Response to Deadly Texas Flash Flood
Jul 11 2025 // Key questions remain unanswered about the actions Texas officials took both before and during the catastrophic July Fourth holiday floods as a painstaking search for victims continues along the Guadalupe River nearly a...
