Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maryland Gov. O’Malley Announces Disaster Relief for June Flooding
Aug 11 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has announced a disaster relief package to help residents of Allegany and Washington counties who were affected by flooding in June. The governor announced the relief last Friday. The...
Typhoon Halong Nears Japan; Saturday Landfall Expected: AIR Analysis
Aug 8 2014 // According the catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, strong winds and heavy rainfall from Typhoon Halong have already arrived on Japan’s Daito Islands (about 320 km [200 miles] east of Okinawa), with reports of...
Louisiana Flood Authority Challenges Law Blocking ‘Big Oil’ Lawsuit
Aug 7 2014 // A south Louisiana flood authority is fighting a new state law aimed at retroactively killing a lawsuit filed last year over coastal damage attributed to oil and gas drilling. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection...
Nuisance Flooding Rising Problem for U.S. Cities: NOAA
Aug 7 2014 // Residents and officials in major U.S. cities know it doesn’t take a fierce storm or menacing hurricane to cause flooding as they increasingly have to deal with so-called “nuisance flooding” caused by...
Typhoons a Major Cause of Losses in July: Aon Benfield – Impact Forecasting
Aug 7 2014 // The latest edition of Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting’s Global Catastrophe Recap report concludes that Super Typhoon Rammasun, which made separate landfalls in the Philippines and China, caused widespread...
New York’s Breezy Point Dune Plan Passes First Review
Aug 6 2014 // A multimillion-dollar request to the federal government for a grant to build a dune system and other coastal protections for a Queens, New York, neighborhood that lost 355 homes to fire and flooding during Superstorm Sandy...
Focusing on Disaster Costs Before Rather Than After They Happen
Aug 6 2014 // The United States spends a lot of money responding to natural disasters but comparatively little trying to limit the costs of disasters before they happen. As the costs to the government and the insurance industry mount,...
Feds to Loan $2.1M to Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish for Flood Upgrade
Aug 4 2014 // State officials say they’ve received approval of a $2.1 million low-interest, energy efficiency loan to support Jefferson Parish’s efforts to upgrade its flood-protection system. The Louisiana Department of...
Vermont Seeks Flood Damage Assessment After Storm
Aug 4 2014 // The state of Vermont is asking officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help them determine if repairs to damage from flash flooding in the Chester area would be eligible for disaster assistance. If the...
Mass. OKs Bill Tying Flood Insurance to Mortgage Balance
Aug 4 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on July 23 signed into law legislation that prohibits creditors from requiring residential property owners to buy flood insurance in an amount that exceeds the balance of their mortgage or...
Hurricane Arthur’s Insured Losses Below $250M: RMS
Aug 4 2014 // Insured losses from Hurricane Arthur will not exceed $250 million from wind and coastal flooding, catastrophe risk modeling firm RMS said. According to RMS, the expected loss covers damages to: Residential, commercial,...
6.5 Million Homes from Maine to Texas at Risk for Storm Surge: CoreLogic
Aug 4 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
FEMA Administrator Questioned Over Sandy Flood Claims
Aug 1 2014 // The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked an independent watchdog to examine whether the flood-insurance program is shortchanging Superstorm Sandy victims. Administrator Craig Fugate testified before a...
City’s Sewage Test Floods Basement in Clifton, New Jersey
Aug 1 2014 // A northern New Jersey couple had a joint birthday celebration ruined after their city’s sewage test flooded their basement and ruined flooring that was put down the day before. Officials in Clifton, New Jersey,...
Vermont Town Sees Worst Flooding Since Irene
Jul 31 2014 // The fire chief in Chester, Vermont, said more than 3 inches of rain fell on his community creating the worst flooding since Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont almost three years ago. Chief Matthew Wilson said the Monday...
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Flood Claims Process After Sandy
Jul 30 2014 // A U.S. Senate committee today conducted a hearing titled “The Flood Insurance Claims Process in Communities After Sandy: Lessons Learned and Potential Improvements,” where lawmakers had a chance to listen to...
Climate Change Debate in Denver Pits Coal Miners vs. Skiers
Jul 30 2014 // Coal miners took on skiers, and environmentalists dueled with business groups as the public debated sweeping rules from the Obama administration to combat global warming in a nationwide series of hearings yesterday. At the...
With Premium Refunds in Process, Washington Criticism of Flood Insurance Ebbs
Jul 28 2014 // Insurance agent, insurance carrier and real estate lobbyists praised federal regulators in charge of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) last week on Capitol Hill, agreeing that the process of issuing flood...
Hartwig Turns Back King Hammurabi’s Playbook on Resilience
Jul 24 2014 // The U.S. government today may be starting to embrace concepts that date back to Babylonian King Hammurabi’s reign some 3,800 years ago. When President Barack Obama on July 16 issued a set of climate change...
Mass. Gov. OKs Bill Tying Required Flood Coverage Amount to Mortgage Balance
Jul 24 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday signed into law legislation that prohibits creditors from requiring residential property owners to buy flood insurance in an amount that exceeds the balance of their mortgage...
