American Dams Weren’t Built for Today’s Climate-Charged Rain and Floods October 3, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis and Leslie Kaufman As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the...
Early Lessons From Helene Show Catastrophes Are Here to Stay, Flood Insurance Vital September 29, 2024 By Jerry Theodorou Hurricane Helene made landfall late Thursday, Sept. 26, in the Florida Big Bend, a sparsely-populated 150-mile coastal stretch from Apalachee...
An Estimated 290 Residences Damaged by Flooding From Lake Dammed by Alaska Glacier August 14, 2024 Roughly 290 residences in Alaska’s capital city were damaged last week by flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall...
Residents in Alaska Capital Clean up Swamped Homes After Ice Dam Burst and Unleashed a Flood August 13, 2024 By Becky Bohrer In her yard under the blazing sun, Debbie Penrose Fischer leafed through a water-logged cookbook with sentimental value that she...
Residents in Alaska Capital Clean up Swamped Homes After Ice Dam Burst and Unleashed a Flood August 13, 2024 By Becky Bohrer In her yard under the blazing sun, Debbie Penrose Fischer leafed through a water-logged cookbook with sentimental value that she...
Florida CFO Issues Order on Public Adjusters as Debby Floods Carolinas August 8, 2024 By Staff and Wire Reports Significant flooding was expected across southeast North Carolina and eastern South Carolina Thursday and Friday as Tropical Storm Debby made...
Hurricane Debby Brings Six Deaths, Widespread Flood Losses in Florida, Georgia, SC August 6, 2024 Hurricane Debby left at least six people dead Monday along with widespread flooding in the same parts of Florida and...
Legislation Will Provide $100M in Aid to Victims of Wildfires and Flooding in New Mexico August 5, 2024 New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed legislation that will provide $100 million in emergency aid to victims of...
Hurricanes Get the Headlines But Inland Flooding Tops the Disaster List July 25, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people...
Hurricane Beryl’s Remnants Spawn Severe Storms in Midwest and Northeast July 12, 2024 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl dropped tornadoes and threatened flooding Wednesday as the system churned into Canada...