Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Groups Urge Congress to Target Flood Insurance Fix to Help Needy, Not Wealthy
Jan 9 2014 // Opponents of delaying Biggert-Waters flood insurance reforms and stopping the resulting premium hikes say the negative effects are being exaggerated and instead of gutting all of the reforms, Congress should target its...
Biden, Cuomo Team Up to Promote Smarter Rebuilding
Jan 8 2014 // Vice President Joe Biden and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that New York and the nation’s other coastal states have to rebuild against severe storms and flooding that are likely in the...
Key Senate Vote on Flood Insurance Rate Delay Pushed to Next Week
Jan 7 2014 // The U.S. Senate is expected to take a key vote soon on a bill that would delay some of the flood insurance rate hikes triggered by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. The procedural vote will determine...
Munich Re’s Review of 2013 Cat Losses Focuses on Weather-Related Events
Jan 7 2014 // In its annual review of loss events in the past year, Munich Re emphasized the “exceptionally high losses from weather-related catastrophes in Europe and Supertyphoon Haiyan,” which, the report said,...
Roanoke, Va., Family Stays Afloat After Summer Floods
Jan 6 2014 // Joel Kirby loaded his young stepson Seth into his truck in the rain and headed over to the mall. “Despicable Me 2” was playing, and a movie on a damp summer night seemed like a good idea while his wife, Elisha,...
Northeast Digs Out From Major Winter Storm
Jan 3 2014 // The massive winter storm that impacted the Midwest and Northeast over the past couple of days is moving into the Atlantic on Friday, while very cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills are moving in behind the system,...
N.J. Sen. Menendez Calls on Congress to Delay Flood Insurance Rate Hikes
Jan 3 2014 // U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Thursday joined residents and local officials in Brick, N.J., to call on Congress to pass the Homeowner’s Flood Insurance Affordability Act. The bipartisan, bicameral bill,...
Flood Maps Still Wrong, Oregon Homeowners Still Paying
Jan 2 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone. Justice is one of...
In Shickshinny, Penn., Flood-Buyout Program to Continue Through 2014
Jan 2 2014 // Donald Hargraves is flooded with nostalgia when he drives past the Shickshinny, Penn., home he owned for more than five decades but doesn’t regret recently selling the property in a flood-buyout program. “I...
Louisiana Judge Ends Katrina Flooding Lawsuits Against Feds
Dec 30 2013 // Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are over. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. has dismissed the cases. The...
Florida Flood Policy to be Offered in Six Additional States
Dec 30 2013 // A Florida insurance agency that stepped forward last month to offer a private market stand-alone flood coverage policy in Florida has started marketing the policy in six other states. The Gainesville, Fla.-based Flood...
Europe’s Stormy Weather as Winter Storms Slam the UK: AIR Worldwide Analysis
Dec 30 2013 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, over the last several days, a series of three winter storms (named Christian, Dirk, and Erich) cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes across the UK and France and...
Insurer Sued in New York for Canceling, Reissuing Flood Policies After Claim
Dec 27 2013 // Fidelity National Property & Casualty Insurance Co. was recently sued in a New York court over flood insurance policies. The suit alleges the insurer retroactively canceled flood policies for Dayton Towers...
GAB Robins Swings into Action as Storms Batter UK
Dec 27 2013 // A “Surge” Bulletin from GAB Robins reports that the “Christmas storms have caused widespread storm and flood damage with the worst affected areas so far in the south of the country.” The bulletin...
Ohio Flood Control Plan Worries Farmers
Dec 24 2013 // Farmers in northwest Ohio who are upset with a plan being worked out to control flooding along a river met with an Ohio congressman to voice their concerns. The Courier newspaper in Findlay reports that about 120 people...
U.K. Christmas Exodus Hampered as Storms Lash Railways, Airports
Dec 24 2013 // Storms that lashed southern England yesterday have closed dozens of railway lines, halted ferry sailings and left airports struggling to restore services as millions of Britons attempt to travel before Christmas. Ten U.K....
President Declares Disaster for Texas Flooding
Dec 23 2013 // Federal aid will head to Texas now that President Obama has declared a disaster area as a result of severe storms and flooding that hit the state during the period of Oct. 30-31, 2013. The U.S. Department of Homeland...
Massachusetts Congressional Delegation Challenges FEMA’s New Flood Maps
Dec 20 2013 // Members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, led by Congressman Bill Keating, recently sent an open letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The lawmakers argued in their letter that when FEMA...
Florida Lawmakers Unveil Plan to Encourage Private Market for Flood Insurance
Dec 19 2013 // With the chances of a federal solution to rising flood insurance rates waning by the day, Florida lawmakers are pressing forward with a bill to create a private market solution to the problem. Florida State Senator Jeff...
Vermont Already Preparing for the Next Big Storm
Dec 18 2013 // Vermont and federal officials Monday highlighted the state’s ongoing efforts to prepare for what is expected to be increasingly severe weather, most likely floods, in the coming years as the effects of a warming...
