Talk in Fargo-Moorhead, N.D., of billion-dollar flood protection projects has some officials to the north a bit uneasy. “I think there’s going to be water coming at us like we don’t know what,” Pembina County Commissioner Andy Adamson said at …
Farmers in northern Wyoming are beginning to file crop insurance claims for losses they suffered when sugar beets and other crops froze earlier this month. Larry French of Farm Bureau Financial Services and Insurance in Powell says he has contacted …
Workers in eight Georgia counties have until Monday to file initial claims for federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance to compensate for loss of income directly resulting from severe storms and flooding last month. DUA is a federal program established to help …
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide warns that the Philippines are bracing for the arrival of Typhoon Lupit. The storm is located about 800 kms (500 miles) east of northern Luzon island and is moving west at approximately 15 kph …
The National Hurricane Center in Miami reports that Tropical Storm Rick is weakening slightly as it continues to move in an easterly direction towards the Baja California Peninsula. However, the Mexican government has issued a tropical storm warning for Southern …
The Army Corps of Engineers has identified 14 flood control options in the Fargo-Moorhead, Minn., area, ranging from levees and flood walls to ditches. The catch is that to win federal approval, the benefit to taxpayers must be greater than …
The Washington State Insurance Commissioner has issued a warning to property insurers with policies in the Green River Valley not to categorically deny flood claims. The Howard Hanson Dam, above the valley, has been found to have structural weakness that …
Using President Obama’s visit to New Orleans this week as his backdrop, Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., again urged the Administration to reform the National Flood Insurance Program, including adding wind coverage to the national program. In an open letter to …
Officials from central Missouri towns say preliminary flood insurance maps presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week were incomplete and based on old information. Huntsdale Mayor Debby Lancaster said she was surprised her town, which has about 30 …
An earthquake rattled parts of Alameda County in Northern California this week. The U.S. Geological Survey says a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 hit around 8:27 p.m. Tuesday about three miles (five kilometers) south of Pleasanton, and about …
