Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Floodgate Opened Again to Drain Delta
Jun 25 2019 // A floodgate in Mississippi has reopened as the Mississippi River falls, allowing a months-long flood in parts of the Mississippi Delta to begin draining. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it opened the Steele Bayou...
North Carolina to Host Flood Insurance Conferences; Will Offer Agents CE Credits
Jun 25 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has set up five flood insurance conferences statewide between July and September designed to educate the public, insurance and real estate agents of the need to purchase flood...
Arkansas River Too High, Fast to Assess Little Rock-Area Flood Damage
Jun 24 2019 // The Arkansas River remains too high and fast to assess flood damage in the Little Rock area, officials say. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the removal of silt and the restoration of the channel for barge traffic are...
Severe Weather Spurs Flooding, Disrupts Rail Service in Pennsylvania
Jun 21 2019 // Severe storms containing heavy rains and strong winds have spurred flooding in the suburbs of Philadelphia, disrupting travel and damaging some property. The storms started Wednesday night and continued for several hours...
Ghost of Harvey Looms Large as 2019 Hurricane Season Gets Underway
Jun 21 2019 // Compared with 2017, last year’s hurricane season was a relatively quiet one for the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Texas, with major U.S. storm systems such as Hurricanes Michael and Florence staying well to the...
Federal Flood Assistance OK’d for 4 More Oklahoma Counties
Jun 20 2019 // Federal disaster assistance has been approved for four more Oklahoma counties affected by severe storms, flooding and tornadoes last month. Gov. Kevin Stitt said the Federal Emergency Management Agency had added Cherokee,...
Flooded Nebraska Homes to Be Razed, but It’s Uncertain Who Pays the Bill
Jun 20 2019 // A suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, has condemned 195 flood-damaged homes, but it’s unclear who will be paying the expected bill of more than $1 million to raze them. The Bellevue City Council has decided that the mobile...
South Carolina Governor Looks to Tackle State’s Flooding Woes
Jun 20 2019 // Gov. Henry McMaster started his Saturday in a South Carolina town devastated by flooding twice in three years to try to help make things better in the short and the long term. McMaster and other volunteers helped clean...
Federal Officials Looking at Flood Issues in Review of Texas Derailment
Jun 19 2019 // Investigators will consider storm-related flooding to help determine what caused an April 24 freight train derailment in North Texas that sent 25 tanker cars off the tracks. The National Transportation Safety Board on...
The Lowdown: 2019 Private Flood Insurance Report
Jun 19 2019 // The big day is coming! I suspect by now, you’ve heard a great deal about the implementation of provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, requiring regulated institutions to accept certain...
Midwestern Floodwaters Harming Louisiana, Mississippi Seafood Businesses
Jun 19 2019 // This is a bad year for people who make their living from seafood in Louisiana and Mississippi. Floods from the Midwest are killing oysters, and driving crabs, shrimp and finfish out of bays and marshes, into saltier water...
Viewpoint: Fixing America’s Flood Insurance Problem in 5 Steps
Jun 19 2019 // The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was originally created by Congress to transfer U.S. flood insurance risk to private insurers. However, in 1978, (when private insurance carriers assumed over 40 percent of the...
New Orleans to Elevate Houses That Flood Repeatedly
Jun 17 2019 // The city of New Orleans is using a $12.5 million grant to elevate more than 50 houses that have experienced repeated flooding. The city says in a news release that the money comes from the Federal Emergency Management...
Businesses Suffer After Floods Wipe Out Nebraska Bridge
Jun 17 2019 // Ron Gadeken of Ron’s Ag & Auto Repair in Stanton, Nebraska, often goes out to farms to repair equipment. That includes south of Stanton, where the Elkhorn River flows. The raging Elkhorn River wiped out part of...
Moratorium on Insurance Policy Cancellations in Effect in Arkansas
Jun 17 2019 // The Arkansas Insurance Department at the end of May announced a 60-day moratorium on the cancellation/non-renewal of policies for non-payment of premiums after Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared a State of Emergency due to the...
Harvey Recovery Ongoing as 2019 Hurricane Season Begins
Jun 17 2019 // Early forecasts for the 2019 U.S. Atlantic hurricane season anticipate the period will be an “average” one. Hurricane season officially runs June 1 through November 30, however, the first named storm of the...
Officials: Floodwaters Swamped Approximately 600 Tulsa County Structures
Jun 17 2019 // About 600 Tulsa County homes and business were inundated during recent historic flooding along the swollen Arkansas River, city officials said. Joe Kralicek, executive director of the Tulsa Area Emergency Management Agency...
Flooded Farmers Filing Insurance Claims Might Also Get U.S. Trade Aid
Jun 17 2019 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into ways to allow farmers who have been unable to plant crops due to rains and waterlogged fields to qualify for farm aid payments, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue...
Mississippi Requests Pumps from Federal Govt. to Ease Flooding
Jun 14 2019 // Faced with weeks more flooding in a part of Mississippi that’s been underwater since February, one of the state’s U.S. senators on Wednesday asked President Donald Trump to order temporary pumps to the area to...
Texas Governor Signs Disaster Relief, Preparedness Bills
Jun 14 2019 // Gov. Greg Abbott has signed four bills into law aimed at bolstering the state’s emergency preparedness and disaster relief programs, including framework that provides more than $1.6 billion for flood control projects...
