Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hundreds Of Oahu Properties At Flood Risk, Feds Say
Aug 27 2014 // New maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have reclassified hundreds of Oahu properties and placed them in a high-risk flood zone. Mortgage lenders will likely require property owners to buy flood insurance if...
N.Y.’s Long Island Areas to Get $16M in Flood-Buffer Funding
Aug 26 2014 // Several areas on Long Island in New York State will get about $16 million in federal funding to buy storm-damaged properties and turn them into flood buffers. Newsday says the funding includes $9.9 million for Amagansett,...
Post-Floods, Detroit Residents Shop for Appliances, Supplies
Aug 26 2014 // Detroit-area residents are shopping for appliances and home-repair supplies in droves after recent flooding damaged houses and the property inside. The Detroit News reports thousands of shoppers visited big-box appliance...
Torrential Rains Bring Floods, Fires to Indiana
Aug 25 2014 // Residents in central and northern Indiana battled fire and water after torrential rains overnight caused widespread flooding on Aug. 22. Firefighters in northeastern Indiana were cut off from a blaze at an auto repair shop...
Vermont Enticing Disaster Preparedness With Money
Aug 25 2014 // Vermont is preparing to implement new rules that encourage communities to take steps to reduce future flood damage in exchange for more money to help them recover from the next big flood. Communities across Vermont have...
Florida’s Flood Agency Stops Writing New Business in Tampa Bay Region
Aug 25 2014 // One of the first entities to step forward and provide private flood insurance in Florida has announced it will stop writing new business in the Tampa Bay region in order to manage its exposure. The Flood Agency, which...
Flood Control Plan for North Dakota’s Souris River Valley in Limbo
Aug 21 2014 // Plans for an $823 million flood control project for the Souris River Valley in North Dakota are in limbo due to federal policy changes and disagreements in Congress. Corps of Engineers officials are studying new rules that...
Torrential Rains Leave Flooded Homes, Injuries in North Dakota
Aug 20 2014 // Torrential rains led to weekend flooding in parts of North Dakota, inundating or threatening more than a dozen homes in the west and causing at least two injuries in the east. Many areas of the state got several inches of...
Florida Opens, Closes Surplus Lines Opportunities
Aug 20 2014 // The recent legislative session in Tallahassee was relatively quiet, a matter some attribute to this being an election year. But even in quiet years, Florida lawmakers tend to make some noise about the insurance industry...
Nepal Flood Toll Hits 101, Fears of Disease Rise
Aug 19 2014 // Nepalese authorities said Monday they feared an outbreak of diseases as they attempt to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding that has already killed more than 100 people. The swirling floodwaters have even...
Coast Guard, N.J. National Guard Still Recovering From Sandy
Aug 18 2014 // Two years after Hurricane Sandy pounded the New Jersey coast, the USCGC Sailfish has yet to return home. The gleaming white 87-foot patrol boat, now temporarily based out of Bayonne, New Jersey, still cannot go back to its...
Maine Officials Alert Consumers, Businesses to Flood-Damaged Autos
Aug 18 2014 // Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage and Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa cautioned consumers and businesses that recent severe weather and flooding in Maine, throughout the Northeast and in other parts of the country...
Wisconsin Town Wants to Upgrade Seawall, Redraw Flood Maps
Aug 18 2014 // Stevens Point, Wis., officials will soon found out if they can upgrade a Wisconsin River seawall so they can redraw flood maps. The Stevens Point Journal Media reports the upgrade could spare more than 200 families...
Findlay, Ohio, Could Face Higher Flood Insurance Costs
Aug 18 2014 // Leaders in a northwestern Ohio city that has seen more than its share of flooding say the Federal Emergency Management Agency has threatened to put the its flood insurance program on “probation.” Officials in...
Flood Insurance Premium Refunds in Process
Aug 18 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is being praised for moving quickly and ahead of schedule to get $100 million in flood insurance premium refunds into the hands of the one million policyholders who...
Interview with South Carolina Commissioner Farmer
Aug 18 2014 // State’s Insurance Markets Moving in Right Direction, Says Former AIA Rep South Carolina Insurance Commissioner Ray Farmer has been the state’s insurance regulator since Governor Nikki Haley appointed him in...
40% of Properties Flooded in Detroit Suburb; Governor Declares Disaster
Aug 15 2014 // Officials in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn say about 40 percent of homes and commercial properties in the city were flooded or had sewer backups in their basements when heavy rain hit the area on Aug. 11. The National...
Possible Factor in Detroit-Area Flooding? Metal Theft
Aug 14 2014 // The state says the theft of copper from pumping stations used to clear water from Detroit-area freeways may have been a contributing factor in this week’s major highway flooding. Michigan Department of Transportation...
Severe Floods Overwhelm Detroit Area; Slow Vehicle Production
Aug 13 2014 // A woman died when her vehicle became stranded in 3 feet of water in suburban Detroit, after heavy rain across southeastern Michigan left many roads impassable. Fearing more motorists could become stranded a day after a...
Typhoon Halong Inundates Japan: AIR Analysis
Aug 12 2014 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s report on former Typhoon Halong notes that it was downgraded to a tropical storm before making its first landfall in Japan on Shikoku Island at approximately 6 a.m. Japan...
